Resisting Tragedy: Lawrence, Marriage, Comedy and Art

Same-Sex Couples, Families, and Marriage: Embracing and Resisting Heteronormativity

This article focuses on lesbian and gay couples and families and the politics of same-sex marriage. Drawing from the literature on same-sex couples, same-sex marriage, and queer theory’s concept of heteronormativity, we argue that gay and lesbian couples and families both affirm and challenge heterosexual and gendered family forms. First, we review literature that discusses how same-sex relatio...

The Art of Marriage

Three Models for Resisting the Capitalist Art System

a bstr act The article presents three models of radical cultural practice: Adorno’s dissonant modernism, Brecht’s “functional transformation” or “refunctioning” of institutions through estrangement and dialectical realism, and Debord’s Situationist détournement of art, aiming to rupture and decolonize naturalized everyday life. The three models all begin with a critical appropriation of the tra...

Punch and Judy AI Playset: A Generative Farce Manifesto Or: The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Predicate Calculus

Building complete interactive narrative systems is hard. Building systems that are satisfying for naïve users is especially hard since small deficiencies in component technologies can easily destroy the experience for a user. In this paper I argue that we can ameliorate some of these technical limitations through careful choice of genre and style, and discuss a number of properties of farce tha...

Art and reproductive science: celebrating a glorious marriage.

Science is relatively easy to de ne: it is the systematic study of how we, and the universe, function. Art, on the other hand, is much harder to de ne using words, but is perhaps an expression of our souls, of our inner beings. Put more simply, art is “who we are” and science is “how we are.” One of the more profound questions that we can ask is “how do these two cultures—medical sciences and a...