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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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  The Curious Case of Donald Trump's Doctor: Metonymy in the Age of Memetic News

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  May 30, 2016

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  The Curious Case of Donald Trump's Doctor: Metonymy in the Age of Memetic News Trump surrogacy news Metonymy memetic meme media Harold Bornstein Donald Trump Curator's Note Six months ago in the weeks leading up to the fifth Republican Debate on ...
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  Sochi Pop: Getting Lucky with Sex, Force, and Proliferating Signifiers

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  May 05, 2016

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  insightful, chain of signification. The association of luck to winning athletic events provides one obvious ...
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  Re: “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

  Thanks Rebecca, so much to

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  Friday, April 29, 2016 — 12:39 pm

  him and the names he has to earn and own (and I think he has to also learn to be proud to be a Johnson ...

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