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Monthly Archives: February 2016
On Jessa Crispin’s “The Dead Ladies Project”
The Dead Ladies Project is a collection of essays centered around Jessa Crispin’s travels in the shadows of the writers she’s fascinated with. The subtitle, “Exiles, Expats, & Ex-Countries,” almost doesn’t manage to touch what’s actually going on in the volume, … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged jessa crispin, literary essay, the dead ladies project, theory
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On Broken Age
A few weeks ago I played through Broken Age, the “Double Fine Adventure” that went through a rollercoaster of development, release, and fan-relationship troubles. It’s an adventure-game-ass adventure game, and being true to the lineage of a very particular time period … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged broken age, double fine, gaming, mathew kumar, video game
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Oath of the Gatewatch’s Most Interesting Cards
I’ve been writing lists of the most interesting cards of the most recent Magic: The Gathering sets, and the articles are somewhere between useful and total frivolity. I just wrote another one about Oath of the Gatewatch. I’m literally writing about the … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged magic the gathering, paste magazine, video games
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Constance Penley on Fan Fiction and NASA
I got back into space and its fictions in the mid-1980s by hanging out with some very interesting women from around the country who write homoerotic, pornographic, utopian romances that take place in the Star Trek universe. Fellow academics have suggested that … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged constance penley, culture, fan fiction, nasa/trek, theory
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Let’s Play Rollercoaster Tycoon – Bumbly Beach
This was the level that I was super excited about playing through in my Let’s Play of Rollercoaster Tycoon. I love the spatial setting of the entire thing–it is right in the middle of some rowhouses and a beach. It’s something … Continue reading
Posted in Video, Video Games
Tagged let's play, rollercoaster tycoon, video, video games
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Gamestop Publishes A Game, Is Not A Publisher
“We are not attempting to be publishers here,” he told MCV. “We are simply taking a great opportunity to collaborate in a non-traditional way, and trust that the combination of all these great ingredients we have put in make for … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged christopher dring, gamestop, publishing, video games
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Animals, Drones, and the Police
We love when animals destroy drones. The compilation videos and their buzzf’diggification on Facebook has drawn together a very clear contemporary fascination with watching animals of all kinds destroy the most annoying objects of modern life. Animals fighting with flying … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged animal studies, drones, liberalism, nonhumans, theory
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Hauntology and Extinction: The Case of Some Weird Bugs
NPR posted a story a little while back about these giant insects that went extinct except for a few surviving members that lived under a bush on a giant rock outcropping in the ocean. It sounds like something out of … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged animals, brian thill, extinction, jacques derrida, marxism, Slavoj Žižek, walter benjamin
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Player/Knowledge – Myst, Characters, and Environment
Everyone has been stumbling over themselves to compare The Witness to Myst and so I made a video in order to get to the root of how I think Myst functions.
Posted in General Features
Tagged myst, player/knowledge, rand miller, robyn miller, the witness
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this cage is worms 