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‘The Hunger Games’ – Spectacle, Panopticon & a Culture of Paranoia [1/3]

In the spirit of producing “scholarly” dissections of geeky things for What’s a Geek, this series of posts revisits an old analysis I did of The Hunger Games. The original version of the paper that these posts cover was written way before the movies came out. However, in the spirit of discourse and even out of…

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WTF Wattpad: ‘Raped and Got Pregnant By A Vampire Prince’ [Part 1]

And now for something completely different: In the spirit of The Robot's Voice's Fancition Fridays, Welcome to WTF Wattpad, where a couple of lucky What's A Geek writers get to read and live through a form of torture called Wattpad. For our first installment of WTF Wattpad, our Social Media Head (Hi, Ade!) sifted through…

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All Fun and Shenanigans ’til Someone Falls: A Review of Kate Evangelista’s No Love Allowed

Ever since Swoon Reads, the crowd-sourced online imprint of Macmillan, announced they were going to publish “No Love Allowed” by home-grown author Kate Evangelista, I've been waiting with bated breath to see if I could get my hands on the Advanced Reader's Edition. (more…)

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