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Scholars interested in the relationship between materiality and narrativity are looking at books that use paratext to the fullest possible extent in order to tell their story. The publication of...
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It has been said that our contemporary experience is that of the "lived dystopia" of Modernity. This social imaginary directly confronts the narrative of the "imminent threshold", the point of no...
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This question stems from a recent comment made by Guillermo del Toro, regarding his creation process: "A lot of people, when they design creatures, they reference [other] creatures. And that's the...
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I’m looking for examples of narratives built through objects and interactions between objects. Museum exhibits, board games and miniatures games, analog simulations, models for Scientific...
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Fiction can be a tool for opening up possibilities, alternatives, and aspirations. It would be interesting to build a bibliography of works that describe imaginative economic systems that help us...
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Worldbuilding has become a topic of interest in many fields. Literature, media studies, game studies are addressing it as a creative process. Social sciences are reflecting on how it relates to...
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Utopia as been called "the adventure of the West". Some scholars limit its analytical relevance to Western modern discourses. They argue that "back-dating" the concept to apply it to discourses...
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It has become commonplace to refer to colonialism, or some of its declinations such as post-colonialism or coloniality, as general terms to situate contemporary social exclusion, marginality, and...
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Guatemalan migration to the North and internal population displacements within this country have generated substantial scholarship. However, other dynamics have been less studied. The goal of this...
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From role-playing games studies to proposals for decolonized ethnographic methods, it seems that the idea of sharing narrative authority is often presented as a key component in addressing power...
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Museums have undergone massive transformations in the last several decades. These changes are said to have made them more democratic, more educational, more interactive. But was something lost in...
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