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  Women sports journalists face harassment

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  Tracy Everbach University of North Texas

  September 01, 2016

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  Scottish tennis player Andy Murray on "being the first person ever to win two Olympic tennis gold ...
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  "The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly": Spectatorship and Platform Performativity from the White House to House of Cards

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  Molly C. Beer Mount Holyoke College

  August 27, 2016

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  order to win (a claim regularly made about our real candidates). The FU2016 campaign itself is equally ... is, it literally adjusted its platform to win viewers. The FU2016 campaign therefore operates as ...
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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

  the control player wins. What's interesting here is that a TON of mechanics fall under this ... Magic players attempt to eschew affectation. The goal is to win, and aesthetics don't matter. ...
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  Re: Magic as Aesthetic Event

  Kibler

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  Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

  Thursday, June 9, 2016 — 4:55 pm

  entertainment value, basing his decisions not on what will win him the game, but what will be the ...
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  Re: Magic as Aesthetic Event

  Hey Cameron, great post,

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  Tuesday, June 7, 2016 — 3:15 pm

  taunting). So, in this case, in order to win stylishly I think Kibler also needs to lose well, to accept the ...
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  Magic as Aesthetic Event

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  Cameron Kunzelman Georgia State University

  June 07, 2016

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  to win the entirety of the tournament alongside the rest of his team, Cheng's play at the very ... Alongside that numeric reality, there's also a showmanship to the game. You can win stylishly; you can ... running into each other at maximum force. He has a single out to win the game, and he takes it not just as ...
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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: The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government

  I appreciate the focus on

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, June 1, 2016 — 5:24 pm

  Trump wins, and what kind of democracy will we have left? ...
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  Re: The Curious Case of Donald Trump's Doctor: Metonymy in the Age of Memetic News

  Trump playing Trump

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

  Wednesday, June 1, 2016 — 7:11 am

  win. So, Trump is basically playing himself. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain. He never ...
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  The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government

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

  June 01, 2016

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  The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government 2016 Election democracy incivility politics Trump Curator's Note By now we have all seen the pictures and watched the video of clashes between supporters of Bernie ...

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