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...Jema Pamintuan Two films that portray the risk culture of millennial capitalism, Segurista ( Dead Sure , 1996) and Kubrador ( The Bet Collector , 2006), are used as textual evidences in discussing and challenging game-theoretic and probabilistic concepts as applied in the Philippine economic...

...Jennifer Hubbert The Olympic games have long served as a platform for political debate and ideological expression, and the 2008 Beijing games were no exception. The United States Olympic team selection of “Lost Boy of Sudan” and Team Darfur spokesperson Lopez Lomong as its flag bearer made...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. youth labor developmental state neoliberalism affective labor emotional labor postcapitalist politics Labor Games: Youth, Work, and Politics in East Asia Gabriella Lukacs In Fukusaku Kinji’s film Battle Royale, Kitano...

...Michael Fisch This article explores the discourses and realities surrounding life and labor in contemporary Japan through a keitai (smartphone) game entitled Days of Love and Labor (Ai to rōdō no hibi). While promising players a simulated employment experience in order to reflect on the possibility...

... in a historicized analysis of popular treatments of their story. On the strength of Deleuze and Guat-tari’s argument that the rhizome cannot be encompassed but instead only extended through rupture, the essay then reads Xie Ye’s prose compositions “Games” and “Your Name Is Little Mu’er,” finding them to contain...

... by putting it in the context of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) patriotic education policy that securitizes culture by focusing on identity as difference in a zero-sum game that distinguishes civilization from barbarism, and China from the rest of the world. It critically analyzes the professors...

... rehearsal (mid-game-as-end-game-as-opening-play-of-the-game). The art of warfare is a delicate business, but what it produces is not. We might wish to call this art (of warfare) a kind of game, one whose rules are located precisely in the material...

... Olympics Arts Festival The year 1964 represented a distinct moment of crystallization in the pro- motion of Japan as a “culture state” at home and abroad. The successful staging of the eighteenth Olympic Games in Tokyo in October of that year...

... literature, Anglo- ­American science fiction and fantasy literature and film, Chinese knight- ­errant martial-­arts novels and films, Japanese anime and manga, Chinese- ­language comics, and Internet role-­playing game (RPG) narratives...

... these cityscapes on my previous visit only five years earlier in 1994 (see fig. 2). Mahjong is closely associated with gambling, and rarely is the game played without some level of wagering. Stories abound of thousands of ren- minbi (RMB) being...

... that the Soviet Union has disappeared, what we are looking at is a reopening of what is called the Great Game. It’s the fight between the big powers in terms of access to oil. That’s why these central Asian and Southern Caucasian coun- tries are so...

... in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He researches transpacific discourses of literature, video games, and new media through the lens of empire studies, Asian American studies, and queer theory. He is an award-winning author of two academic books, Transitive Cultures...

... fabricate affect-oriented virtual experiences within an environment of transmedia images. The isekai conceit is an exemplary product of this environment. Inheriting elements from role-playing games and fantasy fiction, the classical isekai enacts a fantasy of self-reinvention: an unremarkable...

.... Hoping to beat Uncle Kau, Chou Chai spent HK$80 to buy a chess book he carefully stud- ied to improve his skill. Moreover, he frequently squats in his bedspace play- ing game after game of chess with himself. Still, he has hardly ever taken...

... Cixous writes about philippine , an old game also known as philopena : crack open almonds with your lover until you find one that has twin kernels and present it to the other, which entitles you to receive a gift from them, or vice versa, in the future. 1 It is a game that seems innocent enough...

..., not the outcome, of each game is very much like reading the trace, the trail, and the movement of language. Each piece is like a signifier, whose signified is determined by its position on the board in relation to other signifiers. Con- positions 3:2 Fall 1995...

... system of prohibition, punishment, and compulsion that governs and structures gender differentiation. The story tells of the childhood game Bride-Bride that Arjie and his girl cousins play in the house of their grand- parents, and which...

..., imagine a global game of musical chairs in which players sit around a circle that chain-links A, B, C, D, E, . . . on around the globe. However, relations among the players are also positions 15:2  Fall 2007 240...

... that is inherent in the media field, and this illusio is the belief in the game of producing quality entertainment for the people, and the belief that this particular game is worth playing. Second, given that the illusio mediates between the game...