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  Re: Making America Great Again: Nostalgia, Hucksterism, and the Empty Signifier

  Trump being Trump...

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  D. Elisabeth Glassco Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Saturday, June 4, 2016 — 8:53 am

  nothing to lose and can act accordingly. That is why, as you noted, he can appeal to both sides of the ...
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  Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  June 06, 2016

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  Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering the abject Magic: the Gathering game mechanics Curator's Note In Monster Culture: (Seven Theses), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a reading of monsters as symbolic constructs that embody s ...
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  The Question Concerning Technological Humor

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  June 07, 2016

  creating an instrument to suit our vision of a humorous world.   I’m left wondering, if it were possible to ...
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  Re: Making America Great Again: Nostalgia, Hucksterism, and the Empty Signifier

  Trump himself as empty signifier

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  Ryan Pumroy University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  Tuesday, June 7, 2016 — 9:01 pm

  his flip-flopping, his appeal to both sides? Occasionally he walks back comments, or word gets out he ...
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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  June 09, 2016

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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer queerness Magic the Gathering Magic LGBTQ fandom auto-ethnography Curator's Note My two common experiences walking into my local card shop for Friday Night Magic are the faint but ever-present smell of week-ol ...
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  Re: Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering

  Hi Adam, Thanks for your

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 9:51 pm

  plane of Innistrad, for example, Wizards created double-sided cards, which start off as Human creatures ...
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  Re: Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

  Daren, I want to start with

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 10:37 pm

  abyssal-womb of sorts. I want to explore the possibility of Magic as an inherently queer game. The game ...
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  "One Turn of One Game": On Chance, Variance, and Misplays

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  June 10, 2016

  of the game’s most respected players, who is attempting to boost his resume for a possible induction ... certainty to a virtual possibility, turning victory into harrowing defeat. As the second clip reveals, ... virtual possibilities that contradict each other. ...
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  Re: Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

  First, thank you for your

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  Friday, June 10, 2016 — 12:25 pm

  Magic's queer possibilities. And as context, that I think affirms some of my claims about queerness in the ... form of play. This points to the constructive and shifting possibilities of the game as when one ...
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  Re: Brian Regan: “Poking a stick at the world”

  Function and Form

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  Benjamin Kole Aspray Northwestern University

  Wednesday, June 15, 2016 — 12:14 pm

  one side of their head?") he really does show himself to be a layman's Bourdieu: this is ...

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