Author Archives: kunzelman

Released: Vomit Bear

Posted on 02/09/2015 by kunzelman

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 →

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Jean Epstein on discontinuity and continuity

Posted on 02/06/2015 by kunzelman

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 →

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SMK Speedruns Psychonauts

Posted on 02/06/2015 by kunzelman

A great video across the board.

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On Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease”

Posted on 02/05/2015 by kunzelman

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 listen … Continue reading →

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Austin Walker and Ian Williams on Funk of Titans

Posted on 02/03/2015 by kunzelman

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 →

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Varoufakis on Piketty and Power

Posted on 02/03/2015 by kunzelman

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 →

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the vampire squid of the Collaborative Commons

Posted on 01/30/2015 by kunzelman

And yet, on reflection, Rifkin’s examples turn out to be anything but collaborative at their heart. Companies such as Uber and Airbnb are fiercely profit-driven, taking large cuts from all the exchanges they facilitate. They are middlemen themselves, albeit somewhat … Continue reading →

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John Carpenter’s Lost Themes

Posted on 01/29/2015 by kunzelman

Go here to listen to John Carpenter’s new album Lost Themes. I’m buried up to my neck in work right now but good ole John Carpenter is keeping me solid.

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Horkheimer and Adorno on Culture and Advertising

Posted on 01/28/2015 by kunzelman

Culture is a paradoxical commodity. It is so completely subject to the law of exchange that it is no longer exchanged; it is so blindly equated with use that it can no longer be used. For this reason it merges … Continue reading →

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On the Papoola

Posted on 01/27/2015 by kunzelman

In Philip K. Dick’s The Simulacra, there’s a tiny, ill-defined creature named the papoola. We never see a real papoola in the novel, but instead several characters interact with a robotic replica of the papoola (shades of Do Androids Dream of Electric … Continue reading →

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