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  Re: That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century

  Don't thank us (yet)...

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  Ruth Mayer University of Hannover

  Tuesday, December 13, 2011 — 9:39 am

  /*-->*/ Is it over? But I’m not done yet! Also, I’m not sure I understand. The function of the ... still loved it). I’m with Enrica that this is all about domesticity, but domesticity without a warming ...
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  Gotta Catch On: Intertextuality and the Popularity of Pokémon Go

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  Katharine McCain The Ohio State University

  October 15, 2016

  1 comment

  to spread Pokémon Go to as wide an audience as possible, including non-gamers.  Initially Niantic ... Episode 40. This not only cashed in on twenty years of nostalgia, but also encouraged fans outside the ... possibilities. How awesome would it be if Eleven, Negasonic, and Furiosa were the same being, the ultimate ...
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  The Digital Crowd

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  Kartik Nair Temple University Philadelphia

  February 28, 2024

  a pre-defined set of possible movements, such as ambling, standing still, sitting, turning, or hand-raising. ... because each tiny trajectory lies outside” human control; “set in motion rather than moved, such objects ... digital extras: figures with no existence outside their algorithmic implementation by crowd simulation ...
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  Re: Selling Domesticity Online

  Crafty

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  Brad Prager University of Missouri

  Monday, March 22, 2010 — 8:56 pm

  micronarratives of independent living become part of the marketing system is intriguing.  I have to admit that I’m ... bed. But that may be further evidence that I’m not part of the targeted demographic (as pointed out ...
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  Re: Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise

  Are foodies experts?

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  Monday, October 21, 2013 — 2:26 am

  I’m itching to show these clips to students; the sheer weirdness factor of the burger burials can’t ... but generate discussion, even of the confused sort. I’m also interested in the choice of the burger as ... burgers as trendy cuisine. I’m mostly thinking about this recent scandal ...
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  Untitled

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  James Tobias University of California, Riverside

  October 13, 2016

  how? I’m thinking about this question- and the relation of Khalil Joseph’s films to the larger contexts ... speaks- in my understanding- and I’m paraphrasing and interpreting here using a critical idiom that Joseph ... comes in the rhythmic lyric of works like Shabazz Palaces chanting of “I’m free” in “Black Up,” which ...
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  Re: Rebels with a Cause: Creativity and the Teen Drama

  Florian, I think your

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  Phoebe Bronstein Georgia Tech

  Wednesday, November 14, 2012 — 7:52 pm

  is really interesting. You note that these outsiders vilify the decadent consumption that surrounds ... Ryan) or Dan Humphrey's outsider status evolves into an insider/outsider status over seasons of GG ... kind of outsider status, still seems (like Jim Stark) only available to TV's disillusioned white ...
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  MC NORMCORE

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  May 22, 2014

  8 comments

  wildness and sexual outsiderness through a proximity to blackness. Thus, as others have also argued, ... of white supremacy and is only possible because of her distinct brand of normativity. In an interview ...
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  Re: Hedwig leaves her stain on the Shortbus.

  I Spot a Sinthomosexual, but it isn't Severin.

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Wednesday, February 2, 2011 — 2:16 am

  what I argue), I’m not sure she uses these images to engage with the virtual possibilities of images ... possibilities that Severin’s recounting cannot. I do assume–anticipate–hope–the semen remains on the canvas…but ... possibly, m/aligns visual renderings between iconoclasm (a la Deleuze) and jouissance. The painting offers ...

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