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Cut and dried: re-claiming land in Singapore 老生常谈:在新加坡填海造地

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2022.2084431

B. Fok

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引用次数: 1

Biomedical technocracy, the networked public sphere and the biopolitics of COVID-19: notes on the Agamben affair 生物医学技术官僚、网络公共领域和COVID-19的生物政治:关于阿甘本事件的说明

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2022.2099919

T. Christiaens

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引用次数: 4

Introduction to playces: special issue on spaces of play 游戏导论:关于游戏空间的特刊

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1993078

M. Brown, C. Lam

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Coincident play: temporal and spatial overlaps of play activities 巧合游戏:游戏活动的时间和空间重叠

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1968307

H. Wirman

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引用次数: 2

Play and manifestations of playfulness in interactive and immersive museum spaces 在互动式和沉浸式的博物馆空间中玩耍和嬉戏的表现

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1968306

I. Ntalla

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‘Orgies in the Garden of Heaven’ – the pornographic playground of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls “天堂花园的狂欢”——艾伦·摩尔和梅林达·格比的《迷失的女孩》中的色情游乐场

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1955719

M. Brown, Jude Roberts

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引用次数: 2

Heterophotographies: play, power, privilege and spaces of otherness in Chinese tourist photography 异象摄影:中国旅游摄影中的游戏、权力、特权与异象空间

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1943698

M. Brown

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Fan pilgrimage and Thai genre films: play, space and the search for vernacular cultural sites 影迷朝圣与泰国类型电影:戏剧、空间与寻找本土文化遗址

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1991823

Wikanda Promkhuntong

引用次数: 1

Criminals at play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead 犯罪游戏:《俄狄浦斯》、《绳索》和Telltale的《行尸走肉》

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1898429

Wyatt Moss-Wellington

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Introduction: theorising special territorial status and extraterritoriality 绪论:特殊领土地位和治外法权的理论化

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Culture Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1942109

Zachary T. Androus, Magdalena E. Stawkowski, Robert A. Kopack

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