The written diaries of 43 adult male respondents from a prison sample that had participated in restorative justice intervention reveal nuanced and dynamic process desistance via their hopes pains anticipated at the micro, meso macro levels. A utopian reading respondents’ is developed which reveals express vision not just personal, but also inherently political, radical, collective transformativ...

Introduction Fantasy novels have existed for a long time, but came into prominence after J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series. This series introduced many concepts into fantasy and created a genre sometimes known as “high fantasy.” Many novels are written in this mold every year, and in addition, people indulge in pretending they are a part of this kind of world through such role-playing g...

The fantasy sport industry has received a considerable amount of negative attention due to the proliferation of daily fantasy sports (DFS). DFS providers extended traditional fantasy sport consumption through the development of a user-friendly game where participants can wager money daily or weekly on a multitude of sporting events. This interface is very similar to that of Internet gambling, w...

Financial conspiracies today blend together antisemitic tropes and spiritual visions with ideals of political reform economic salvation. It is tempting to locate such phenomena at the periphery financial order, situating them within a delusional space beyond judicious concepts money, finance, wealth, value. But also possible take paranoid finance as an extreme, radical appropriation logic inher...

This essay works toward an integration of psychoanalysis and rhetorical theory in response to the poststructural critique of mediation. I argue that the concept of communication, usually understood as the mediation or reconciliation of Self and Other, is based on what Lacan termed the “fundamental fantasy.” Distinct from the conscious fantasies usually analyzed by rhetorical critics, the fundam...

Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and describes specific visual and ludological tropes of race and nationality, and the techniques by which the game engineers the complicity of the player in the problematics it represents. Some of these are coherent with themes...