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  Re: "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries

  erasing race; erasing history

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011 — 3:04 pm

  flashbacks, the witch identity, even the romance with Jeremy. I wonder if it might be possible to blindcast ...
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  "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  March 22, 2011

  14 comments

  "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries the vampire diaries race and television media industries casting Curator's Note The video I am curating illustrates the drama two ...
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  Re: Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

  Writers' Role ?

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  Lauren Bratslavsky University of Oregon

  Thursday, March 17, 2011 — 3:30 am

  also part of this hypercommercial environment. In thinking about the absurd possibility of Apple ...
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  "All Your Subversion Are Belong to Culture Industry" (That Means You Too, Banksy!)

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  Benjamin Thevenin Brigham Young University

  March 16, 2011

  8 comments

  Park’s anarchic wit is evidence of the scholarly cache of such animated cultural critiques. (I’m ...
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  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

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  Gladys Santiago New York University

  March 15, 2011

  8 comments

  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation The Simpsons product displacement primetime animation animation Curator's Note I’ve been tracking examples of  product displacement--instances in which brand names and logos are greeked or mo ...
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  Re: Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

  Come to Daddy

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  Mario Rodriguez UPenn

  Friday, March 11, 2011 — 2:23 am

  investigating the term ‘agency’ in sociology, and one thing I’m wondering is, would it make sense to talk about ...
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  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  March 10, 2011

  4 comments

  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice video games posthuman objectivism choice bioshock Curator's Note by Edmond Chang and Timothy Welsh Department of English, University of Washington The video game Bioshock (Irrational Games, 2007) takes ...
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  Portrait of a Posthuman

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  Eva Rorandelli Visual artist

  March 09, 2011

  6 comments

  this question more and more. Or at least I think I do, presuming that I myself am real. Recently I’m ...
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  Re: Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

  Robot dog?

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  Eva Rorandelli Visual artist

  Tuesday, March 8, 2011 — 2:21 am

  be certain to possess a "wild" side. As a consequence, if it were me, I would be tempted to ...
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  Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

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  Dominic Pettman New School University

  March 07, 2011

  11 comments

  Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face posthumanism and media posthuman hominization face emergence animal Curator's Note This dog wants cupcakes. So says the YouTube title for this home-made video. And yet this same cani ...

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