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The Pleasure of the Text
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Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice.read more
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New media – new pleasures?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the conceptualization of pleasure as it is deployed in media audience research and attempt to update these conceptualizations by drawing upon game design theory and key concepts from new media theory through an empirical examination of the varied experience of digital games, DVDs and digital television in a variety of households in Dublin, Ireland.
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From Femininity to Finitude: Freud, Lacan, and Feminism, Again
TL;DR: For a long time, the author used to think that feminists ought to choose Lacan's femininity theory over Freud's as mentioned in this paper, since Freud's eternal harping on penis envy and motherhood as the solution to the "problem" of femininity struck the author as intellectually wrongheaded, and misogynist too.
An Exploratory Study of Internet Addiction, Usage and Communication Pleasure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the correlation between Internet addiction, usage, and communication pleasure and concluded that greater communication pleasure, BBS use hours, or Internet use hours related to higher Internet addiction scores.