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4 hours ago · What is Cosplay? Cosplay, short for *costume play*, is a performance art in which participants, known as cosplayers, wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character from a work of fiction. This practice has grown into a global phenomenon, encompassing a wide array of genres and media, including
4 hours ago · What is a Cosplay Artist? Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play," is a form of performance art where participants, known as cosplayers, wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character from a wide array of sources, including anime, manga, comic books, video games, and films. The practice of cos
4 hours ago · Beginning with a close reading of Raymond Carver’s story “Collectors,” which involves an unexpected visit from a vacuum cleaner salesman, this introduction outlines the cultural repercussions of this appliance in literature and film, including such works as Anna Sebastian’s World War II novel The Monster, in which the vacuum cleaner and its salesman come to stand for Hitler’s tyranny.
1 day ago · Irony is a response to the apparent epistemic uncertainties of anti-foundationalism. In the words of scholar Frederick C. Beiser, Schlegel presents irony as consisting in "the recognition that, even though we cannot attain truth, we still must forever strive toward it, because only then do we approach it."
1 day ago · The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
