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Gaming the Humanities
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 189–215.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Patrick Jagoda This essay approaches games and gamification as a major problematic of the still emerging digital humanities. Games—through their mechanics, procedurality, navigable worlds, and multimedia interactions—call for new literacies that exceed traditional reading and writing skills...
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Time in Video Games: Repetitions of the New
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 19–43.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Miglena Nikolchina This study addresses the mystery of why sophisticated video game technology, set between chronological incompatibility and the interface of history and myth in the modernist novel, between the medieval quest and the Bildungsroman, has accrued so many truly archaic features...
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The Smear: Vibrational Flesh and the Calculus of Black Queer Becoming in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Dionte Harris This essay examines the game played in the first act of Barry Jenkins’s 2016 film Moonlight . “Smear the queer” is a game most resembling tackle football. The author examines how the “rules” of the game manifest as a type of power, one whose function is to set the terms of relation...
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Pavlov’s Podcast: The Acousmatic Voice in the Age of Mp3s
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 140–167.
Published: 01 December 2011
... exchanges. As such, it asks what role the voice plays in the ongoing game of fort-da that underlies everyday human experience, and whether the ontological stakes change in different technological situations and environments. Paying particular attention to the gendered voice, this piece attempts to steer...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
... explains the jubilant restlessness of Bersani’s oeuvre. The author concludes with a reading of Freud’s infamous fort/da game, arguing that the child lessens his stake in a magisterial and anxious identity so as to extend himself, or parts of himself, joyfully and impersonally, into the world. dclark...
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Black Sex in the Quiet
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 126–147.
Published: 01 May 2019
... ways that black subjects carve out alternative imaginaries of black intimacy in the space of the public. Black sex in the quiet is used to read neo-soul artist Erykah Badu’s music video “Other Side of the Game,” an ostensible scene of black cis heteronormative domesticity, for quiet articulations...
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The Short Happy Life of Black Feminist Theory
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 32–47.
Published: 01 May 2010
... “whiteness,” this essay asks whether a male-authored work, which contains no black characters of consequence, is nevertheless fair game for a black feminist reading. What happens to the text of the white male “other” when it is read through the lens of black feminist theory? Brown University...
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Framing Cultural Difference: Immigrant Women and Discourses of Tradition
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 90–110.
Published: 01 May 2011
... versus modernity renders certain important facts illegible, underemphasizing or ignoring the structures of power within which violence against women occurs. This simple story positions culture and feminism as opponents in a zero-sum game and presumes that women will be emancipated when they have overcome...
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Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 44–66.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the cultural prohibitions against such recognition and mourning might be suspended. Disrupting norms of aggressive heteromasculinity in dominant gamer culture, these videos might help us imagine alternative ways of living with melancholy gender. 7 For those who are not familiar with gaming, an avatar’s...
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Feelings of Injustice: The Institutionalization of Gender Studies and the Pluralization of Feminism
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 103–124.
Published: 01 September 2016
... at Cornell in the 1950s. 3 Just Gaming is set as seven days of dialogues, a conversation between Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud. Works Cited Abbott Sidney Love Barbara . Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism . New York : Stein and Day , 1972...
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Live Thinking, or the Psychagogy of Michel Foucault
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2014
...” of the governmental game, since political economy conjures the
very nature that it seeks to know and regulate. More than simply recast-
ing the domain of political economy, this insight also disturbs the putative
naturalism of Marxism’s founding...
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Computation, Gender, and Human Thinking
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 27–48.
Published: 01 September 2003
... in the subsequent
literature. What has come to be called the Turing Test is called by Turing
the “im itation game.” The job of imitation is performed by a computer. In
order to prove that it can think, a machine is supposed to perform...
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Child's Play
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differences (1999) 11 (3): 76–106.
Published: 01 December 1999
... games and spurred attacks on Hollywood for
producing entertainment in which violence figures so prominently and
relentlessly. Clearly, the picture of the boys suggested that play violence
presages real violence. But the picture, when...
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Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 26–44.
Published: 01 November 1991
... of the College de Sociologie. Though trained as a classicist, Caillois became interested early on in anthropology and it is in her commentary on his Les Jeux et les hommes (Men and Games) that Yourcenar makes the remarks which concern us here. Expressing admiration for the urge towards taxonomy or organization...
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The Killer Within: Christianity and the Invention of Murder in the Roman World
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 153–173.
Published: 01 July 1996
... and spectatorial. Christians attacked what they saw to be the lie of the games, their disguising of the fact that acts of murder within the arena were equivalent to those outside. In doing so they constructed homicidium as an absolute standard of wrongdoing which no amount of masquerade could alter. This supposed...
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What Takes Place in the Dark
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 45–71.
Published: 01 July 1992
...-anti-ethnocentrism. Rorty's anti-anti-ethnocentrism has two prongs. First, he explicitly argues that we are members of the culture and language game into which we are born and which defines who we are. We Western liberals are just that, Western liberals. This is the boat into which we have been thrown...
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Niceness, Building, and Opening the Genealogy of the Digital Humanities: Beyond the Social Contract of Humanities Computing
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 93–106.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the intersections between postcolonial studies and the digital humanities, nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature and Southeast Asian and African studies, and games in higher education. She is currently working on a monograph titled “Cosmopolitan Whiteness” on the configurations...
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The Mismeasure of Sport: Race and the Science of Athletic Performance
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 43–73.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Douglas G. “ An Open Letter to President Bush .” usa Track and Field 22 July 2008 . www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2008_07_22_06_15_21 . MacAloon John J. This Great Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1981...
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Of Bugs and Masks: Regimes within Regimes
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2021
... see the applicability of literary theory, including some major concepts of Russian formalism, to the heterogeneous medium of video games (Nikolchina, “Time”; and Pötzsch, “From” and “Playing”). Beyond immediate applicability, however, there is the strange validation of literary theory at its most...
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Doubting the New World Order: Marxism, Realism, and the Claims of Postmodernist Social Theory
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 94–138.
Published: 01 November 1991
... on Knowledge . Trans. Bennington Geoff and Massumi Brian . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1984 . Lyotard Jean-François , and Thébaud Jean-Loup . Just Gaming . Trans. Godzich Wlad . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1985 . Macdonell Diane . Theories...
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