Ventresca, M. 2018. The curious case of CTE: Mediating materialities of traumatic brain injury. Communication & Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479518761636.

In this fervent manifesto, Ahmed brings impressive clarity to a field of study often opaque in the hands of others. Admirers of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts should take note Publishers WeeklySpangler, Todd (July 31, 2018). "First Three Seasons of Syfy's Killjoys Streaming on VRV Under New Pact (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved August 7, 2018. The display earned Boogaard both a suspension from the game and the notice of scouts of the WHL, who immediately recruited him to the next level up. Omalu, B.I., S.T. DeKosky, R.L. Minster, M.I. Kamboh, R.L. Hamilton, and C.H. Wecht. 2005. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player. Neurosurgery 57 (1): 128–134.

ML: I don't think anybody ever gets to lobby for two seasons, to be honest. You don't get to lobby for much. There's never a guarantee. A lot of showrunners grapple with [not knowing if a show will be renewed] every season. I certainly grappled with it as well. But there's also something that is a bit liberating about that process, because every finale I've ever written, I've had to go into with the understanding that this could be the last episode. In a weird way, it's an interesting and fertile training ground for writing the real [series finale]. I wish I liked " The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem" more than I did. It’s a great premise, with some delightfully gritty and horrific artwork. But the story is just… disappointing. Dutch, D’av and Johnny started out as unlikely buddies serving warrants in the Quad, a tough corner of space where bounty hunters — and just about everyone else — had to scramble to survive. But the show became a story about carving out a place to feel free and creating a patchwork family who would celebrate exactly who you were, even if they occasionally drove you nuts — or tried to murder you. (We’ve all been there, right?) This article is an STS-inflected history of the making of CTE as both a matter of fact and a matter of concern (Latour 2004). It is also an intervention in well-established narratives Footnote 1 that figure CTE in a linear neuroreductive framework where mechanical blows to the head cause brain damage, which then produces memory loss, erratic behaviour, depression, aggression and violent behaviours. This view is ubiquitous in CTE discourse, sometimes explicitly and sometimes more tacitly. Terry Long is a former NFL player who committed suicide, and whose brain was found to have the tell-tale pattern of tau staining. In the film Concussion, Smith-as-Omalu states the uncomplicated linear formula: “Football gave him CTE and CTE told his brain to drink antifreeze” (Landesman 2015). Dynamic and distributed models of the brain and nervous system are all but absent from CTE discourse and practice, which is instead dominated by the ancient method and epistemology of anatomy. Bringing CTE into conversation with newer strains of neuroscientific and biosocial thinking about violence yields a worrisome picture of the socio-material realities of becoming in the context of hypermasculinity and collision sports. This picture encompasses, but is not limited to, brains colliding with the insides of skulls.

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Luke Macfarlane as D'avin Jaqobis, Johnny's older brother, a former soldier and indentured fighter who becomes a RAC bounty hunter to join and help his brother and Dutch. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook is full of pithy observations, inversions, and diagnoses … greatly empowering THE TRUE LIVES OF THE FABULOUS KILLJOYS LAUNCHES IN JUNE 2013". Dark Horse.com. December 17, 2012 . Retrieved March 15, 2013. Latour, B. 2004. Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Critical Inquiry 30 (2): 225–248.

Heather M (July 13, 2018). "Showrunner Adam Barken Sets the Stage for Killjoys Season 4 [Exclusive]". TV Goodness . Retrieved September 17, 2018. Sara Ahmed is an increasingly cited source in how to navigate abuses of power and change working conditions . . . and in how to navigate the realities of what happens after people speak up and speak out. Her approach to feminist theory and institutional critique is pragmatic, with books such as Living a Feminist Life (2017) or her longstanding blog feministkilljoys providing detailed studies of how rhetorics of 'equality' and 'diversity' get dragged through intimate and bureaucratic tangles Craig, R.O. 2019. Hypermasculinity. Encyclopedia Britannica online, 2 January 2019; https://www.britannica.com/topic/hypermasculinity. Accessed 3 May 2020. Combines her signature humor—bitingly funny, in this case—with accessible language and theoretical discourse, making this title as appropriate for university courses as it is for self-identified “feminist killjoys,” people who point out sexist comments or don’t laugh at offensive jokes… This book arms readers with a sense of vital energy, often lost due to burnout, compassion fatigue, and microaggressions. Audiences curious about navigating the intersection between feminism and daily life, intellectualism, poetry, and activism will love this title Oreskes, N., and E.M. Conway. 2011. Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.The art and colour was great and the story felt more streamlined compared to the other works from Gerard, I really do think he has gotten better over the years at making things more clear for the reader-to a point anyway, as this includes elements of time travel and a different reality/realm if you are not used to that kind of stuff then things are going to remain just as confusing as ever, as those things are confusing by their nature. Aurora Award Ballot" (PDF). prixaurorawards.ca. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 21, 2017 . Retrieved May 30, 2017. To foreshadow a major theme in the article, we find that once a player is deemed to have been in the grip of CTE (a complicated retroactive attribution, given that the disease is only definitively diagnosed postmortem), the man’s behaviours are described in uniformly reductive terms. The diseased parts of the brain become the man, and his actions—particularly those which are aggressive or otherwise nefarious—are attributed directly to CTE pathology. In what follows, we speculate about why this is, while also proposing that a more empirically and ethically satisfying picture can be painted if we broaden the frame. We are inspired in this task by the emergent field of critical neurosciences that invites “a degree of critical rigour through provocation—that is, by illuminating blind spots and by questioning assumptions” (Choudhury and Slaby 2011, p. 354). A biosocial model of becoming insists that players’ brains and bodies are shaped, physically and materially, by the contexts in which they are immersed in the years and even decades in the lead-up to becoming celebrity athletes in violent sports. By blows to the head, yes, but not only by those blows.