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Intelligence Is a Warm Gun

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Frank Kelleter Göttingen University (Germany)

Thursday, December 15, 2011 — 8:02 am

of American television (at least in some sections of the program), because more and more shows now ... non-partisan, seemingly balanced after-the-news talk shows which are doing at least as much harm as the more ...

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Re: TV series, metaseriality and "the very special episode"

Social Stupidity

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Andreas Jahn-Sudmann John-F-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin

Thursday, December 15, 2011 — 9:05 am

laugh. Or at least they could assume that the text is meant to be ironic or parodic, even if appears to ...

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Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs

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Daniel Stein DFG Research Unit "Popular Seriality," John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

December 16, 2011

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summer; The Key of Awesome produces spoofs serially). Its existence foregrounds (at least) two crucial ...

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Re: Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs

Parody of series vs. iteration

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Jason Mittell Middlebury College

Friday, December 16, 2011 — 8:21 pm

least dismissive, as it aims to mock the core. My favorite Batman example is this comic, which reduces ...

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Narratological Amateur Iconologists?

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Daniel Stein DFG Research Unit "Popular Seriality," John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

Saturday, December 17, 2011 — 10:48 am

Dolan being hotter in Batman Begins, where she was played by another actress; the Dark Knight as ...

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Occupy Greenville: What Should Local Look Like?

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Amanda Ann Klein East Carolina University

December 20, 2011

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united in purpose, the group disagreed over when to begin organizing protests. Some felt that Occupy ...

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Technological#Failure

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Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

January 15, 2012

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function, when things begin to reveal how improperly we understand our ability to inter/face an/other. Each ...

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Can the Sub-Object Speak?: Siri and the Commodification of Things

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Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

January 17, 2012

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least three things. First, at the ontological level, Siri and its users are objectal peers. Second, its ...

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Machine Love: the companionship of technology

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Paul Boshears Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien (the European Graduate School)

January 19, 2012

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Machine Love: the companionship of technology What Are These Technological Things? tool being Heidegger agency actants Curator's Note In this essay let's consider the companionship possible in Being-with TrueCompanion's Roxxxy; let's d ...

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