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Some preliminary Dear Esther remarks
I am excited about Dear Esther coming out next month. It will be a day one purchase for me, and there aren’t a lot of games that hold that kind of weight for me. So this is the trailer for … Continue reading
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The Brutal Reality of Affect
I’ll set the scene. I am in the library. I have just wandered around and wrangled a great stack of books that I will be using to write the next section of conference paper that I am working on. I … Continue reading
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Weekend Update
I’m just writing a quick post to let readers of the blog know that I won’t be keeping the same schedule that I was able to keep over the summer. I have (mostly) been making four 500+ word posts a … Continue reading
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On the Riots
You know what riots I’m talking about. I don’t have anything to say about them that Lenin’s Tomb or Penny Red or An und fur sich hasn’t already said, though if you read those links, you’ll figure out where my … Continue reading
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What I Understand
I resolved long ago not to seek knowledge, as others do, but to seek its contrary, which is unknowing. I no longer anticipated the moment when I would be rewarded for my effort, when I would know at last, but … Continue reading
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On The State of Affairs
I’ve been neglecting this blog for a long time, and for that I apologize, but I’ve been TA’ing a class and reading a lot of stuff in preparation for writing my thesis. At some point over the next week I … Continue reading
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Quote Time 20
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows … Continue reading
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Quote Time 19
Down here it was still the England I had known in my childhood: the railway-cuttings smothered in wild flowers, the deep meadows where the great shining horses browse and meditate, the slow-moving streams bordered by willows, the green bosoms of … Continue reading
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On Ranciere’s The Future of the Image
So I finished this a few minutes ago. I was, and am, frustrated about it–I wanted it to be much more than it ended up being. Ranciere begins the book with a discussion of the image. This is my first … Continue reading
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Mieville on Lovecraft
I think Lovecraft is an astonishing visionary writer, and the source of his vision, in many cases, is race hatred. Now what do you do with that? Do you say, “I’m not going to read any of his stuff”? Do … Continue reading
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