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  A hair of the dog that bit us

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  Adrian Ivakhiv University of Vermont

  August 31, 2011

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  hypercapitalism.  More broadly, it’s whether there remain breathing spaces and sources of transcendence outside of ...
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  Dreaming of Qatar: The Spectacle and Fantasies of World Cup 2022

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  Michael Butterworth Ohio University

  October 24, 2014

  their lives to make it possible or the citizens for whom Qatar’s wealth remains out of reach.  At the ... Possibility.”  In the wake of World Cup 2014, and in the context of global capitalism, we would be well served to ... ask, “Possibility, for whom?”   ...
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  Eating Settler-Colonialism: A meditation

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  Remy Yi Siang Low University of Sydney

  November 10, 2017

  expectant, salivating mouth.   Breathing in, I consider the people that have made this meal possible ... since forever.   Breathing in, I consider the non-human others that have made this meal possible.   This ...
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  Maintaining the Neoliberal Home: Reproducing the Self through the Body of the Other

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  September 23, 2025

  final confrontation between Red and Adelaide in adulthood, however, Red evokes another possibility for ... possible. At this point, it was not yet defined by the affective shock of replacement and the revenge ... (reform). The possibility to desire differently is seemingly located in the child’s relationship to the ...
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  Our Work on Us: Allegoresis, Labor, and the ‘Social Thriller’

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  Jordan Chrietzberg Georgia State University

  September 13, 2022

  mass media, consumerism, the haves and have nots (our possible “thems” to Us ’s “us”)); a shelved array ... lore, of easter-eggs to be (be)labored over digitally, discursively (and profitably). Is it possible for ...
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  Humanity in the Face of an Apparatus

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  Nicholas Baer University of Groningen

  June 17, 2020

  Technological Reproducibility,” examining the possibilities and structural constraints that informed his theory ...
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  “I am Free Enterprise:” The Resurgence of the Free Enterprise System

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  Elizabeth Heffelfinger Western Carolina University

  April 21, 2010

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  “I am Free Enterprise:” The Resurgence of the Free Enterprise System free enterprise campaign capitalism Curator's Note At the end of World War II, wealthy industrialists, corporate executives, educators and filmmakers joined a campaign to teach Amer ...
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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game

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  Dafna Kaufman The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  November 26, 2017

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  Not Just a Sports Film: Spike Lee‘s Layered Contexts and Implications in He Got Game Sports Film Spike Lee race capitalism Curator's Note    Since the mid-1980s, Spike Lee has become one of the most discussed African-American film directors. Lee' ...
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  When Idle Hands Were the Devil's Workshop: Did Early Game Manufacturers Overcome A Gaming Prejudice?

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  Nicolas Ricketts National Museum of Play at The Strong

  June 25, 2012

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  When Idle Hands Were the Devil's Workshop: Did Early Game Manufacturers Overcome A Gaming Prejudice? lithography gaming history card game capitalism board game Curator's Note Nearly everyone plays games today. But the earliest manufactured board ...