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The différance engine: videogames as deconstructive spacetime
The purpose here is to intervene within some dominant strands of videogame scholarship and propose a more problematic relation to our object. The two dominant tendencies taken-up here represent what has come to be self-styled as a media studies 2.0 model, over and against a supposedly previously dominant (and retroactivated as outmoded) 1.0. Proposed in opposition to these somewhat sweeping positions will be a deconstructive model which, while disagreeing with these theoretical âalgorithmsâ, would not believe itself to be leading a charge toward any notionally more thoroughgoingly circumnavigating 3.0 account. Specifically, while the 2.0 account proposes a ânewâ active first-person Performative framework versus an âoldâ third-person indicative Constative, we would recommend a reworked iterative-Performative as propounded in the works of Derrida and Butler
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The Effect of X-Rays on the Rate of Cell Division in the Early Cleavage of Planorbis
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The sentimental novel as Trostschrift: Johann Martin Millerâs Siegwart. Eine Klostergeschichte (1776)
Late eighteenth-century consolatory texts for bereavement employed traditional consolatory arguments, but also set new emphasis on sympathy, on a recognition of the individuality of the sufferer and on the benefits of an entertaining or âplayfulâ approach. This essay suggests that the sentimental novel took on some of the functions of the Trostschrift in this period. As well as offering the reader providential accounts of bereavement and of the prospect of reunion beyond the grave, Millerâs popular novel Siegwart (1776) establishes the sense of a virtual sympathetic community and offers the reader the cathartic opportunity to indulge grief, then distracts him/her from it with the aesthetic pleasures of the text. The negative reception of the sentimental novel by enlightened consolatory authors is ascribed to their distrust of the apparent âinstabilityâ of fictionâits lack of ârealâ referents
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Specular suffering: (staging) the body in pain
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Altichiero in the Fifteenth Century
Altichiero was the dominant north Italian painter of the later Trecento. In Padua, in the 1370s and early 1380s, he worked for patrons close to Petrarch and his circle and perhaps in direct contact with the poet himself. By the time of the second edition of Vasariâs Vite (1568) the memory of Altichieroâs work had suffered significant occlusion, and Vasariâs account of him is little more than an appendix to his life of Carpaccio. Only since the later nineteenth century, and particularly in the last fifty or so years, has Altichieroâs reputation been restored. It is the purpose of this paper to examine aspects of that reputation throughout the century or so after the painterâs death (by April 1393)
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