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Visual culture studies in this period moved from understanding archives as repositories of documentary evidence to conceptualizing them as productive institutional sites of visual knowledge. This post-structuralist turn has led to innovative methodological inquiries into how archives elicit myriad negotiations around subjectivity, citizenship, and
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Experiencing and displaying SCEs is evidence of our sensitivity to shared group norms.
Alexandra Plakias • Awkwardness: A Theory
Analyst or Moralist?
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Although millions of people watched Alexander every week, he was the master of collective insanity, and as the decades tick on he will become ever more irrelevant. Most of what we see around us is the ephemeral mainstream, mass-produced populist commercial trash, designed to go straight through us.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
Edward Zitron • CrowdStruck
The Atlantic • Johnny Depp and the Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom


staged encounters.