Procedural Rhetoric and the Possibility Space in "The Sims 3"
Published by EA Maxis in 2009, The Sims 3 is considered to be the best life simulation video game by many gaming enthusiasts, and has...
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Sydney Baty
- Sep 24, 2019
On the Great Video Game Debate and Situational Ethics
**some of the content within this piece contains discussion of violence within the context of video games. Today’s scapegoat for the...
Adam Hubrig
- Sep 17, 2019
Automation and Disability: Labor Conditions in Robot Futurity
"When I hear us dream our futures, believe we will make it to one, We will make one. The future lives in our bodies. Touch it." from...
Phillip Howells
- Sep 10, 2019
HotE Review: Annie McClanahan's “Tipwork, Microwork, Automation: The Insecurity of 21st C. Labor
This year, the Humanities on the Edge speaking series celebrates its 10th year of operation by reflecting on the history of HotE as well...
Phillip Howells
- Sep 3, 2019
Humanities on the Edge Preview: Annie McClanahan
As we begin the first semester of the 2019/20 school year, we anticipate the resumption of the Humanities on the Edge speaking series,...
Keshia Mcclantoc
- Apr 30, 2019
Critical Interrogations of Institution and Self: Watershed and Spring 2019
In “The Neoliberal Institution of Culture and the Critique of Culturalization,” Dusan Grlja and Jelena Vesic discuss an art collective...
Ilana Masad
- Apr 23, 2019
HotE Review: Charlotte Biltekoff’s “Real Food / Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the U.S. F
On Thursday, April 18, Dr. Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health and Associate...
Christian Rush, Gina Keplinger
- Apr 16, 2019
Humanities on the Edge Preview: Charlotte Biltekoff
Charlotte Biltekoff, Associate Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, will...
Linda J. Pawlenty
- Apr 9, 2019
"Because I wanted to": Language and Interrogation Surrounding Women doing "Men's
The History Channel’s docu-drama Ice Road Truckersdebuted in 2007 and ran until 2017. The first two seasons of the show followed drivers...
Adam Hubrig
- Apr 9, 2019
Crip Ethos: One Disabled Person's Response to Hulu's "The Act."
I’m going to be reflecting on Hulu’s original series “The Act.” I bring this up at an odd organizational moment for three reasons: There...
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