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    "pk": 64532,
    "title": "A Queer OS Powered by the Apocalypse: Feminist Platforms and TTRPG Engines",
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    "abstract": "In this essay I argue that analog game engines speculate on what is possible for the digital, in a way that concretizes queer visions of the messy relationship between humans, systems, and computation. Drawing on Kara Keeling and Tara McPherson, I analyze the analog game engine Powered by the Apocalypse as an example of Keeling’s notion of a \"Queer OS,\" or an operating system that encodes queer relational structures. In my close analysis of Powered by the Apocalypse’s mechanics and conceptual boundaries, I bring feminist platform studies and analog game studies into dialogue in order to argue for a more expansive definition of \"game engine\" that accounts for the ways in which analog games imagine forms of computation and human-computer interaction that are not yet possible for digital game engines.",
    "language": "eng",
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            "word": "TTRPG"
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            "word": "PbtA"
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            "word": "game engines"
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        {
            "word": "queer"
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            "word": "operating system"
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        {
            "word": "platform studies"
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            "word": "analog games"
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            "first_name": "Kaelan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Doyle-Myerscough",
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            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": "Cinema and Media Studies"
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    "date_published": "2025-07-04T09:01:00Z",
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