Nedda Ahmed
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Fun after the build
Hye Jin: Thank you for kicking off the week and for elegantly summarizing some of the key issues with modern-day LEGO-dom! One factor we might also consider in the toy vs. collectible debate is that many LEGOs, once assembled, have moving parts that activ ... -
Monetizing Subversion
Thanks for a great post on the LEGO Movie, Alan! Hye-Jin's post from Monday also discussed the creativity vs. conformity issue, which is one of the major themes in the LEGO Movie, as you describe here. LEGO seems uniquely adept at walking this fine l ... -
Gameplay in the LEGOverse
This question is less analytical and more simple curiosity, Drew, but since I don't play video games regularly... I wonder if how gameplay in a LEGO game compares to gameplay in another game where the characters are humanoid and therefore (I'd g ... -
"Kitchen Sink" Asperger's/Autism
Picking up on your comment about "what the producers/writers believe Asperger's looks like," something I have noticed is that most TV representations--Max included--seem to have *every* symptom/sign of Asperger's. It's as if write ... -
Ah, Parenthood
Thanks for a great, thought-provoking post, Avery! It's now impossible to think about the representation of Autism on TV without thinking of Max and Parenthood. I agree that the character of Max is a little too "glossy" in certain respects, ... -
Slide Show Links
Looks like Slideshare stripped out the links to articles I embedded with the images. Here they are: Big Bang Theory slide Community slide Grey's Anatomy slide Touch slide The Middle slide Parenthood slide ... -
The Asperger's "Crutch"
YES Karen, you've hit on yet another annoyance I have with the ubiquity of the Asperger's label. It's become TOO convenient; a shorthand, if you will. Writers say a character has Asperger's and it suddenly makes it OK for them to be ru ... -
"Autistic Experience" videos
Poking around YouTube a bit, the number videos in the vein of "this is what it feels like to have Autism" is truly astounding. This one, "Sensory Overload (Interacting with Autism Project)" is one of the more successful ones, in my (NT ... -
Selling out as destruction of a former self?
Good points all, Matt! As I see more and more of my punk idols cash in on reunion tours, I wonder how the anti-capitalistan/anti-consumerist original iterations of these bands would respond to the more financially-oriented present iterations? My guess is ... -
Re: Culture in Ruins
Cultural destruction vs. Human destruction
Great post, Heather! The slide show, too, is filled with such great resources for people looking into these questions. I'm ruminating about your final question, which, to me, speaks to the tension between mourning cultural objects vs. mourning human ...