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Project MUSE – Configurations-Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2017 Free Issue of this excellent journal: Articles Dream of an Unfettered Electrical Future: Nikola Tesla, the Electrical Utopian Novel, and an Alternative American Sociotechnical Imaginary | pp. 1-27| HTML | Download PDF …
The Sublime Object of Ideology – Slavoj Zizek ~PDF of the full 2nd Ed.
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Somewhere there is someone just like you, eating his cereal and getting ready for work at the mall where he sells shoes and chats with the cashier ladies who are thinking about break time while his mouth makes noises. He comes home, eats TV dinners and watches Rick and Morty re-runs. He reads science fiction…
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn Imagine that you are a 14-year-old today. A friend might show you a short porn clip on his phone during the bus ride to school or after soccer practice. A pornographic GIF appears on Snapchat. Or you mistype the word “fishing” and end up with a bunch of…
“Telling Stories: Unreliable Discourse, Fight Club, and the Cinematic Narrator”>Journal of Narrative Theory Emily R. Anderson: “I have been arguing that films have extra- heterodiegetic narrators who, by focalizing through unreliable characters, are able to misreport events—something that narrators in novels cannot do. In order to play this argument out, let us return to Fight…
Slavoj Zizek – A Pervert’s Guide to Family “Here, then, is where we are five years later: still unable to locate 9/11 into a large narrative, to provide its “cognitive mapping.” Of course, there is the official story according to which, the permanent virtual threat of the invisible Enemy legitimizes preemptive strikes: precisely because the…