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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Released: Vomit Bear
This past week I was attempting to recover from two months of crunch on Epanalepsis (it’s coming along great), and I made a small game called Vomit Bear. I made some mouth sounds music and enlisted the help of a lot of … Continue reading
Jean Epstein on discontinuity and continuity
Discontinuity becomes continuity only once it has entered the movie-viewer. It is a purely interior phenomenon. Outside the viewing subject there is no movement, no flux, no light in the mosaics of light and shadow that the screen always displays … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged film, jean epstein, machines, phenomenology, theory
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SMK Speedruns Psychonauts
A great video across the board.
Posted in Video Games
Tagged psychonauts, speedruns, video games
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On Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGbfbttJys The irony that I can’t shake “Shake the Disease” is not lost on me. I listen to music in little ritournelles, a French-y word for saying that I get stuck in audio ruts as a mode of habit. I … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged depeche mode, music, Shake the Disease
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Austin Walker and Ian Williams on Funk of Titans
There’s a temptation to say that popular interpretations of blaxploitation has even lost their racialized content, but there’s often a toothless trace. In Funk of Titans, after players beat a set of levels they face off in a rhythm-game dance … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged austin walker, blaxsploitation, funk of titans, ian williams, race
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Varoufakis on Piketty and Power
You might know Varoufakis as the new Greek Finance Minister who basically has the world by the throat. I came to know him via his previous job at Valve as a market analyst/director/weird practical research guy. When he was at … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged economics, karl marx, power, thomas piketty, varoufakis
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this cage is worms 