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Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects

Edited by Brianne Cohen, Erin Espelie, & Bonnie Etherington

Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects gathers contributions from multiple disciplines to investigate intersectional questions of how the changing planet affects specific peoples, communities, wildlife species, and ecosystems in varying and inequitable ways.

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Game Poems

Jordan Magnuson

In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice, independent game designer Jordan Magnuson explores the convergences between game making and lyric poetry and makes the surprising proposition that videogames can operate as a kind of poetry apart from any reliance on linguistic signs or symbols.

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Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism

Tullio Pagano

Pagano questions the apparent opposition between diaspora and empire and argues that there was a continuity between the “peaceful conquest” through spontaneous emigration envisioned by Italian liberal intellectuals at the turn of the century and the military colonialism of Italian Nationalists and Fascists.

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Judicial Rhapsodies: Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court

Doug Coluson

Previous studies of judicial opinions have explored rhetorical strategies that produce legitimacy, but none have examined the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions.

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