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Year-End Meta 2022: “Escaping Total Nullification”

Thanks and reflections after nearly 10 years of The Middle Spaces, and what happens next.

27 December 2022 in Meta.

Year-End Meta 2021: The End Spaces. . .

As 2021 comes to an end and the site’s 10-year anniversary approaches, it is time to think of a closing strategy for The Middle Spaces.

28 December 2021 in Meta.

Year-End Meta 2020: Additions, Corrections, Updates & Announcements

Cleaning up loose ends from the last year and making some announcements about the next.

29 December 2020 in Comics, Meta.

Days of Future Imperfect Past: The 2019 Year-End Meta Post

A look at the past year, comics collecting present, and a possible future for The Middle Spaces

31 December 2019 in Meta.

“I AM (not) FROM BEYOND!” – Situating Scholarship & the Writing “I”

Our 2018 Year-End Meta Post considers the role of the personal – both identificatory perception and the labor of writing itself – in scholarship.

25 December 2018 in Comic Studies, Meta.

Like a Phoenix: On Selective Completion & Re-Collecting X-Men

Taking the occasion of our 5th anniversary to explore the re-acquiring of X-Men comics in that same time period.

20 March 2018 in Comics, Meta.

Mo’ Meta News: How Collecting Shapes The Middle Spaces

As the year ends, let’s look to 2018 and beyond by considering how comic book collecting and critical nostalgia shape The Middle Spaces blog.

26 December 2017 in Comics, Meta.

2016: Nothing To Be Done (But Pay Writers)

Our annual Meta-Post, overcoming 2016’s malaise by doubling-down on what matters.

27 December 2016 in Meta.

Additions, Corrections, Retractions

An overview of posts in need of revisiting.

29 December 2015 in Meta, Review.

Forget the Year that Was. . . Imagine the Year that Could Be

Possible topics and flexible goals for 2015.

30 December 2014 in Meta, Review.

On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia

Identity is a constant retcon.

8 July 2014 in Authenticity, Comics, Meta.

2013: Reviewing The Year It Wasn’t

An overview of all the posts I planned to write or started writing but that never quite came together.

24 December 2013 in Meta.
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