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* Aliens! Aliens! Not really. But it’s never too early to panic. * This truly is the darkest timeline: Marquette signs new contract with Pepsi for on-campus beverage services. * Some Of The Best PC...
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* CFP: The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2017. And here’s a CFP for a special issue on Polish science fiction. * Do Earth laws apply to Mars colonists? * The Turner Legacy: The Storied...
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* My superhero identity has finally been scooped. * Lots of people are sharing this one, on hyperexploited labor in the academy: Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech. As with most of this sort of...
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* 46 shots that were cut from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. There Was Almost a Jedi in Rogue One. What Rogue One Teaches Us About the Rebel Alliance’s Military Chops. * How a Pen and Paper RPG Brought...
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The death of the academic job market really makes the MLA a kind of Children of Men situation. — Karl Steel (@KarlSteel) January 5, 2017 * Speaking of which! This Saturday morning! Infinite Jest at...
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* Dragons Are for White Kids with Money: On the Friction of Geekdom and Race. Posted in a Facebook thread about this snippet of a review I finished today (which references this immortal Pictures for...
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* Presenting the International Journal of James Bond Studies. * On graduate labor and the Yale commencement protest. * A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted...
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* Coming soon! Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. I have a short piece in this one ruminating on Rogue One and the problems of multiple authorship in contemporary franchise...
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* CFP: Edited Collection on Ecohorror. * Join English dept faculty, students, and alumni as we debate the question of our age: “Is GAME OF THRONES still good?” * A lovely tribute to the career of the...
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* Hey, this is finally out! Imagining Apocalypse Now with Mark Soderstrom & Gerry Canavan. * And the BBC has re-released its Afterwords: Octavia E. Butler series, but it’s still not available to...
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