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Tag Archives: queer
Can We Kindly? by Samantha Allen
This is a guest post, which isn’t a normal thing for this blog, but I read Samantha’s piece and immediately offered to put it here. So here it is. – CK -+-+-+-+-+- Samantha Allen is a transgender woman, ex-Mormon and … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Post, Video Games
Tagged jonas kyratzes, mattie brice, queer, samantha allen, video games
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Halberstam on disciplinarity
Indeed terms like serious and rigorous tend to be code words, in academia as well as other contexts, for disciplinary correctness; they signal a form of training and learning that confirms what is already known according to approved methods of knowing, but they do … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged failure, j. halberstam, michel foucault, queer, walter benjamin
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de Castell and Bryson on utopia
So our argument is for disenchantment, and for the abandonment of a utopian landscape of desire that has never been anything but entrapment. Suzanne de Castell and Mary Bryson “Retooling Play: Dystopia, Dysphoria, and Difference”
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged gender, mary bryson, queer, suzanne de castell, video games
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Sara Ahmed on bodies and space
So, yes, we can remember that some space are already occupied. They even take the shape of bodies that occupy them. Bodies also take the shape of the spaces they occupy and of the work they do. And yet sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged phenomenology, queer, sara ahmed, theory, video games
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Sara Ahmed on the making of worlds
Inhabiting a body that is not extended by the skin of the social means the world acquires a new shape and makes new impressions. Becoming a lesbian taught me about the very point of how life gets directed and how … Continue reading
