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EMILY BACAL
MA CANDIDATE
NYU PERFORMANCE STUDIES
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Some Things I've Put Into Words
I'm trying things out! Making the Pre!
Emily Bacal
Jun 28, 20228 min read
An Ode to Twilight
Ah, Twilight. The film that launched (way more than) a thousand ships. Whether you ship Team Edward or Team Jacob, none can deny the...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 26, 20223 min read
Defining Post-Irony: Etymology to Application
According to OED Online, the etymological root of “irony” is the "classical Latin īrōnīa form of wit in which one says the opposite of...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 25, 20224 min read
Not-Not Nonfiction: Post-Ironic Simulacra
Hiroki Azuma explores the emergence of a community of people who are extremely invested in Anime, called otaku, in his 2001 book Otaku:...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 21, 20224 min read
The Franchise that Ate Feminism? Eat this.
In a 2010 article for The Guardian titled “Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism”, David Cox claims that Twilight is an antifeminist...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 21, 20224 min read
Symbolic Logic: The Why
Why am I using symbolic logic, you ask? One of the reasons I’m using symbolic logic is because I hate symbolic logic. I hate how...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 13, 20223 min read
TikTok
This isn’t the confrontation between the rational man and the indifferent universe. It’s the confrontation between a woman who is...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 13, 20223 min read
The Absurd
What is the absurd? We know the absurd in our bodies. It is something we come up against, a kind of wall, a halt that presents itself as...
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Emily Bacal
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Podcast - Alexa on Riverdale
I speak to my roommate Alexa, verified Internet expert, about wacky media, internet discourse, and Riverdale.
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Emily Bacal
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Podcast- Benjamin on The Fast and The Furious
I talk to Benjamin, FF enthusiast, about sincerity, Vin Diesel, and going to space in a car
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Emily Bacal
Jun 13, 20224 min read
Just Kidding! I Guess This Project is Dumb
Yesterday I met a man, one who is probably in his mid-forties and from Westchester, New York, with salt-and-pepper scruff and horn-rimmed...
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