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SUMMARY: Video Games and the Pornography of Death with Amanda Phillips
DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi
 ce Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by Critical Play Initiative) present
 s:   Video Games and the Pornography of Death   Dr. Amanda Phillips WHEN & 
 WHERE Wednesday November 26th\,  12-1pm Buchanan Tower\, Room 323 Please RS
 VP below in advance A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm ABOUT […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;">The Institute
  for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (
 co-sponsored by <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig
 -off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Cr
 itical Play Initiative</span>) presents:</p><p> </p><h1 style="text-align: 
 center\;"><span style="color: #993300\;"><span class="OYPEnA font-feature-l
 iga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none te
 xt-strikethrough-none">Video Games and the Pornography of Death</span></spa
 n></h1><p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center\;"><span style="color: #993300
 \;">Dr. Amanda Phillips</span></h2><hr /><p style="text-align: center\;"><s
 trong>WHEN & WHERE</strong></p><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>Wedn
 esday November 26th\, </strong></p><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>
 12-1pm</strong></p><p style="text-align: center\;">Buchanan Tower\, Room 32
 3</p><p style="text-align: center\;">Please RSVP below in advance</p><p sty
 le="text-align: center\;">A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm</p><p styl
 e="text-align: center\;">[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordi
 on title="RSVP (In-Person)"] [gravityform id="93" title="true" description=
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 description="true"] [/accordion][/accordions]</p><hr /><p><span style="font
 -weight: 400\;"><strong>ABOUT Dr. Amanda Philips</strong></span></p><p>[cap
 tion id="attachment_30168" align="alignleft" width="197"]<img class="wp-ima
 ge-30168" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/202
 5/08/Amanda-Philips-297x300.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="199" /> Dr. Ama
 nda Philips[/caption]</p><p>Amanda Phillips (they/he/she) is an Associate P
 rofessor at Georgetown University. They are the author of <em>Gamer Trouble
 : Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture</em> and co-editor of the NYU 
 Press Queer/Trans/Digital/Diaspora book series. Amanda writes about sex\, d
 eath\, identity\, and politics in video games.</p><p><span style="font-weig
 ht: 400\;"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></span></p><p>This talk explores the so
 -called "pornography of death" in video games. Once infamously called "murd
 er simulators" by anti-obscenity activist Jack Thompson\, the simulation an
 d animation technologies of video games are indeed often used to depict ela
 borate\, explicit\, and exploitative fantasies about dying and killing. Fro
 m exploding heads and blood fountains to flailing bodies and x-ray vision\,
  the mechanics of death in video games are polymorphously perverse\, and un
 derstanding the ways that digital technologies stimulate our curiosity of h
 ow bodies respond to violence or how individuals behave under threat is cru
 cial in this moment of genocide\, rising fascism\, racial injustice\, and t
 rans- and queerphobia.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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