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Bretton Varga

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critical post-humanisms | ghosts/hauntings | art/aesthetics | affect studies Web: brettonvarga.com

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · May 2

Hope to see you there🩵

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SSA #SCAR Summer School

Affect and be affected at the second Society for the Study of Affect Summer School (SSASS). Co-hosted by the Society for the Study of Affect and Dr. Michael Lechuga at the University of New Mexico in ...

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Feb 9

Looking forward to it friend🩵

Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Feb 8

For those who have the passion space and bandwidth, we hope you join us on this endeavor🩵

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · Jan 27

#CFP “Transgressive Identities & Subjectivities” Conference 17-18 June - Birmingham City Uni.
Delighted to be running this event with Matt Grimes, to explore both the potentials and the limitations of transgression of selfhood in media, culture and society. bcmcr.org/event/cfp-tr... deadline 7 Feb!

CFP: “Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities” BCMCR Conference 17th-18th June 2025 – BCMCR

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Jan 24

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hope you’ll join us🩵

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Jan 21

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Jan 20

It is here (published today) and it is beautiful. An open access anti-fascist wonderment to behold.

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Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism

<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...

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Bretton Varga @brettonvarga.bsky.social · Jan 12

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · Dec 20

2 special issues I've co-edited have just been published!
Journal of Posthumanism special issue "Posthumanism and Media Studies" co-edited w/ J.J. Sylvia IV,
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Journal of Games Criticism special issue "Playing the Posts: post-anthropocene, posthuman, post-apocalypse" co-edited w/ @larrymay.me
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