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The pleasurable lightness of being: Interface, mediation and meta-narrative in Lucasfilm's Loom

Eludamos, 2009
This critique of the overlooked Lucasfilm adventure game focuses on the techniques, by which the distance between the avatar and the player is bridged, and the way the game deals with its gameness in its fiction.
Jaroslav Švelch
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2001, l’Odyssée de l’espace de Kubrick et la possibilité d’un cinéma de science-fiction

ReS Futurae, 2015
Stanley Kubrick peut être décrit comme un réalisateur métagénérique, dans la mesure où ses oeuvres majeures tendent à renverser et à reconstruire les conventions hérités du genre cinématographique pertinent (l’horreur dans Shining, le film historique ...
Carl Freedman
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Religion in Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Akademisk Kvarter, 2011
A similar focus on the cosmic can be found in Kim Toft Hansen'sarticle Religion in Scandinavian Crime Fiction, where Hansen argues that crime fiction in Scandinavia is moving towards becoming a post-secular genre, which on the one hand discusses and ...
Kim Toft Hansen
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Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize

Journal of Social Computing, 2021
Tech critics become technocrats when they overlook the daunting administrative density of a digital-first society. The author implores critics to reject structural dependencies on digital tools rather than naturalize their integration through critique ...
Jonnie Penn
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Some reflections on selected themes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction and her feminist manifesto

Literator, 2022
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fiction, namely, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck generally reflects an intersection of black women’s experiences in a variety of contexts.
Moffat Sebola
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Disolución e invención: ficciones críticas en Saer y Aira

Cuadernos LIRICO
The works of Saer and Aira create a chiasmatic intersection between fiction and critique: their fictions interfere with the diegetic conventions of the narrative genre while simultaneously redefining the creative possibilities of critique. In Aira's case,
David Parra Miranda
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Equivocationary Horseshit: Post-Correlationist Aesthetics and Post-Critical Ethics in the Works of David Foster Wallace

Open Library of Humanities, 2020
This article argues that David Foster Wallace’s writing can profitably be understood within paradigms of post-critique that show critical thought to be a form of forever-deferred inaction.
Caroline Edwards
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‘The Big Society’ Fact or Fiction? - a Sociological Critique [PDF]

Sociological Research Online, 2011
[No abstract]
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Lire “Les Misérables” en 1862: en lisant Victor Hugo avec Charles Joffrin

Anamorphosis
Cet article, une version élargie d'un extrait de la thèse de doctorat soutenue à l'Université de São Paulo, analyse la réception de l’œuvre Les Misérables de Victor Hugo, publiée en 1862, en mettant l'accent sur la critique de Charles Joffrin, un juriste
Rafael Tubone Magdaleno
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Arnaud Huftier, Jean Ray, L’Alchimie du mystère (2010)

ReS Futurae, 2013
La biographie critique de Jean Ray par Arnaud Huftier examine, entre autres, la question de la science-fiction dans l’œuvre de l’auteur fantastique belge, entre merveilleux scientifique et occultisme.
Samuel Minne
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