Selling Horror: the early Warren comics magazines

The horror of life

ment of the use of the microscope. In the second essay the author stresses that the rather slow development of microscopical optics up to about 1830, together with the smallness of the scientific community, led to little pressure for the develoment of methods of illustrating microscopical discoveries for a large readership. Once the achromatic lens was established, and with the technical develo...

The comics war.

The Warren Court : Constitutional Decision

The appointment in 1953 of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States marked the beginning of a new era in the development of constitutional law. In the ensuing years changes of vast dimension and historic impact have taken place. Few men are better qualified to assess the significance of the decisions of the Warren Court than Archibald Cox, student of law, teacher of law and, from 1961 ...

Horror Videogames and the Uncanny

This paper explores the uncanny dimensions of avatars and gamespaces in survival horror videogames. The avatar’s combination of animation and lifelessness personifies Freud’s notion of the uncanny. Simultaneously, the cybernetic interaction between player and machine, whereby the digital figure appears to act with autonomy and agency, unsettles the boundaries between dead object and living pers...

Selling Information Selling Information *

We study a dynamic buyer-seller problem in which the good is information and there are no property rights. The potential buyer is reluctant to pay for information whose value to him is uncertain, but the seller cannot credibly convey its value to the buyer without disclosing the information itself. Information comes as divisible hard evidence. We show how and why the seller can appropriate a su...