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Re: Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

First, thank you for your

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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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"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

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