... with playing the game as allegories for our increasingly complex relationship to digital culture. Minecraft is not the apotheosis of cultural domination by code as much as it is a playable parable about its complications. © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 digital culture cultural technique allegory...

...Adam Piette This article considers Nabokov’s Lolita as an allegory of the Cold War’s obsession with uranium, correlating the uranium rush of the 1950s with the choice of some of the key locations in the book. The incursion into United States space by the foreign agent and corrupter of youth Humbert...

...Ian Buchanan This essay argues that the 2006 Ray Lawrence film Jindabyne can be read as a national allegory (in Fredric Jameson's sense of the word) for the cultural politics of the national apology to the indigenous people of Australia made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. It argues that the film...

... narrative or historical excursions. Recursive short circuits can generate history not in the usual linear sense but only in repetitions. What has been called here excursion and recursion might be correlated with the figures of irony and allegory Lars Friedrich has found in Kittler. 12 Irony, on the level...

... for foreigners can be” (141). If one approach to the problem of discerning the politics of Denis’s films is to focus on their most social-realist moments, another is to find in even the most sensory and immersive of her movies a sociopolitical allegory, as Florence Martin does when she reads Trouble Every Day...

..., “Bourguiba’s Sons: Melancholy Manhood in Modern Tunisian Cinema” (2010). 12 Celtia is the name of the most popular Tunisian beer, presumably a local version of Heineken . 13 Jarrod Hayes (2000) conceives of the brothel scene in the film as an allegory of the colonial experience of Tunisia. I...

... explain how the failure of hope provokes the proliferation of objects. It then follows that the expansive field of hopeless objects necessarily relates to another field of hope or possibility: the possibility of the revolutionary event. Here, Benjamin's notion of allegory refers to the knot that binds...

... and traditions in which reality and shadows shape or define one another: “Reality is there by casting shadows; it is the shadows that inscribe beings in reality” (25). Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” likely has the most appearances in philosophy anthologies. A brief thought experiment from his Republic...

... a macabre version of a stretch limo. The angels floating above are similar to those in an illustration for Nizâmî's Tale of the Turquoise Pavilion , where they struggle with a seven-headed dragon in an allegory of the soul's journey through the lower world. In my image, the bullet-ridden, incinerated...

... by their experimentation with literary genre. More specifically, these novels use the conventions of their respective genres (realism, epic, allegory, and thriller) to reach back in time and across cultures and languages, invoking past iterations of these forms and histories and anticipating those to come. Unlike Hayden...

... II (2011). MF: We have spoken about political art in Iran, but I wonder if you could tell me how your work differs from your contemporaries in Iran and in Turkey. MS: To answer this question, I want to use an allegory about traditional Persian music and melodies that are more or less...

... in the outside world can be found. Whether gamespace is more real or not than some other world is not the question. That even in its unreality it may have real effects on other worlds – is. Games are not representations of this world. They are more like allegories of a world made over as gamespace...

...-17/fueron-dos-las-mujeres-que-posaron-para-la-estatua-del-capitolio-de-la-habana/ . Fraunhar Alison . 2005 . “ Mulata cubana: The Problematics of National Allegory .” In Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender, and National Identity , 160 – 79 . London : McFarland...

... it, “[Žižek] is an associationist par excellence. His use of films is purely hermeneutic, with each film playing out allegories of theoretical doctrines” ( Bordwell 2005 ). A quick glance at any of Žižek's texts can surely back up this claim. For example, Žižek often refers to David Lynch's film, Lost...

... technoid world back into a geography thus consisted of stripping away its complacent use of metaphors and allegories that idealize and fetishize its technology as entirely dematerialized. Investigating the locations of data centers reveals shifting geographical territories, material entities, and network...

... dominated by jahel s in both neighborhood and national governance (Naficy forthcoming) . The luti or darvish is the cultural ideal, the jahel the corrupt present reality. The luti-jahel pair are lower-class figures, and thus could be used safely as emotional allegories for the state and its...

...: a “world-reflecting” conception of mimetic representation (imitations of nature or reality), and a “world-simulating” or “world-creating” one (aesthetic forms with worldlike plausibility). The world-reflecting model is evident in Plato's allegory of the cave, which regards all artistic representations...

... and intersubjective or ideological consistency. As noted above, though, this is a matter of belief. Without belief the sublimation does not work and the miniaturization of the President becomes an allegory for the failures of George W. Bush, for his lack of abilities and the diminution of American global leadership...

... and Unwin . Cro S. 1990 . The Noble Savage: Allegory of Freedom . Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press . Curtis E. 1907–1930. The North American Indian . Cambridge/Norwood : Frederick Wenn Hodge . Dammann C. Dammann F. 1876 . Ethnological Photographic...

... allegories of the contemporary business world and demonstrates various management strategies by borrowing legendary figures from Water Margin and A Journey to the West. Even the state government and the official political and cultural system as a whole are made victims of parody. Take, for example...