Lars and the Real Girl

Remington, Ted

doi:10.1177/2158244011408346

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When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

Wagner¹

2015

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The author considers whether the dystopian society of 2025 described in Spike Jonze's movie Her is as far away as one might think. The intervention of social media and "smart technology" has resulted in human beings preferring engagement in mediated communications. This results in less reliance on the five primary senses acting in concert while interacting socially, a key to empathy. The result may be less honest relationships.

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When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

Wagner¹

2015

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This Could Be the Place: Queer Acceptance in Lars and the Real Girl

King¹,

West²

2014

QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking

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In our engagement with Lars and the Real Girl (LRG), we encourage a reading of the film that emphasizes how it playfully and performatively reproduces and, in the process, undoes norms of temporality and collectivity. In particular, LRG queers normative understandings of public culture, identity, and community in three primary ways. First, the film queers typical understandings of time, challenging the presumed distinctions between past, present, and future. Second, LRG forwards a prosthetic understanding of identity, asserting that all identities are relationally contingent and therefore queering the subject-object binary. Finally, the film envisions queer kinship structures that not only critique hegemonic gender norms but also call attention to the performativity of gendered identities. Ultimately, we deploy LRG to respond to those who advocate antirelationality as the properly queer way of moving through space and time.

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Moving Beyond Love and Luck: Building Right Relationships and Respecting Lived Experience in New Zealand Autism Policy

Stace¹

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<p>Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnoses have been rising rapidly in recent years and New Zealand is just one country grappling with the policy challenges this presents. Currently, love, such as a supportive family, and luck, that appropriate services are available, are required by people with autism and their families for good outcomes, a situation that is neither equitable nor sustainable. Autism was first named as a separate condition in 1943. The concept of autism has developed significantly since then in many ways, including as the cultural identity that many autistic adults now claim. Influenced by the international disability rights movement and local activism, New Zealand policy is now based on the social model of disability, whereby society as a whole has responsibility for removing disabling barriers. In 1997, a New Zealand mother, unable to find appropriate support at a time of crisis, killed her autistic daughter. A decade of policy work followed, leading to the 2008 publication of the New Zealand Autism Spectrum Disorder Guideline (Ministries of Health and Education, 2008) which is the first whole-of-spectrum, whole-of-life, whole-of-government, best practice approach in the world to address the extensive issues surrounding ASD. Prioritisation and initial attempts at implementation revealed new problems. The complexity, lack of simple solutions and fragmentation of autism policy indicates that this is a 'wicked' policy problem. To move beyond this situation requires innovative and collaborative approaches. The 'transformative paradigm' is a research methodology which builds on recent developments in participatory and emancipatory research, and disciplines such as disability studies. It advocates approaches based on mixed methods, social justice, ethics and partnership, so is particularly suited to examining a problem such as autism, and indicating ways forward. There is untapped expertise among those with lived experience of autism and their families to tackle the 'wicked' aspects of autism, but to harness this expertise requires relationship building which addresses power imbalances and past injustices. This thesis analyses New Zealand autism policy and suggests ways this lived experience could be better respected and incorporated into policy processes, in an attempt to move past the currently required variables of love and luck.</p>

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Lars and the Real Girl

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

This Could Be the Place: Queer Acceptance in Lars and the Real Girl

Moving Beyond Love and Luck: Building Right Relationships and Respecting Lived Experience in New Zealand Autism Policy

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