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Issue 7.2 Previous Issues

Digitisation and the Death of the Real

Keri Thomas April 30, 2019 No Comments books cultural materialism digital digital humanities digital texts Digitisation manucript manuscripts materialities materiality physicality posthumanism posthumanities reading simulation

Keri Thomas asks: what is the Real? It is the desert left beneath our replica map of the world […]

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Issue 1.6 Previous Issues

Superhumanity: Refiguring the Superhero

Sarah Chihaya November 1, 2012 No Comments Barack Obama Black Panther California Christopher Nolan comics Democratic National Convention 2004 fiction genre Incredible Hulk John Carter Jonathan Letham Joss Whedon Juno Diaz Kavalier and Clay Mark Ruffalo Marvel Universe Michael Chabon novel reading Secret Skin Spiderman 2 superhero fatigue superheroes superhuman Telegraph Avenue The Avengers The Dark Knight Rises Wakanda

Like the urban thoroughfare it’s named after, Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) contains diverse and highly specific multitudes. It is a…

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