Author Archives: kunzelman

Riff Raff on the Riff Raff Halloween Costume (or, What Does It Mean To Be Riff Raff?)

Posted on 05/03/2013 by kunzelman

Riff Raff talks a bit about Spring Breakers in this interview. About midway through: [Riff Raff talks about a store he is going to open that does not sell middle of the mall shit and then] …but what we’re doing is also … Continue reading →

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Rasmussen and Architecture

Posted on 05/02/2013 by kunzelman

A painter’s sketch is a purely personal document; his brush stroke is as individual as his handwriting; an imitation of it is a forgery. This is not true of architecture. The architect remains anonymously in the background. Here again he … Continue reading →

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I Am In The New Five Out of Ten

Posted on 05/01/2013 by kunzelman

The newest Five Out of Ten Magazine is out today. Edited by Alan Williamson, Five Out of Ten is a magazine of video game criticism written for a general audience of people who, you know, care about that thing. Important … Continue reading →

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Sam Biddle on Google Glass Evangelism

Posted on 04/30/2013 by kunzelman

There’s no clear answer as to why Scoble has hundreds of thousands of followers across Twitter and Facebook, given that he’s just a guy who works for a data hosting company. This isn’t one of the great minds of our … Continue reading →

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You Buy It I Write It: Rogue Warrior

Posted on 04/29/2013 by kunzelman

Is there a game you think I should write about? If you purchase a game for me on Steam, I will play it. Check out the information here. You can check out other games I have played against my will here. Rogue … Continue reading →

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Riff Raff on Representation in His Work

Posted on 04/26/2013 by kunzelman

1:17 into the video Riff Raff says this: Maybe he got spiritual after he heard my songs. I mean my music ain’t just like music (mumbles) there’s a lot to it. If you picture it and you write out the … Continue reading →

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Parikka on Complicity With Anonymous Media

Posted on 04/25/2013 by kunzelman

The archaeological method of  Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia represents a theory-fiction alternative for media archaeology too. What if we employ the same hallucinatory, inspiring way of investigating the subterranean, the secret, the ground that is not defined by stability but dynamic flux of sediments … Continue reading →

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On Loss of First Person Control

Posted on 04/24/2013 by kunzelman

This is just a quick thing because I’m not sure what I really have to to say about this. I’ve been playing Mirror’s Edge in very small chunks recently. I’m generally a marathon player–I will take a Saturday and power … Continue reading →

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Released: Slavoj Žižek Makes A Twine Game

Posted on 04/23/2013 by kunzelman

If you care about nothing else, I have a new game. You can play it here. Ian Bogost once made a tweet that looked like this: https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/314198079807041536 In the ensuing conversation, I agreed to do it. My first game, after … Continue reading →

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Olof Dreijer on Ally Responsibility

Posted on 04/22/2013 by kunzelman

We’ve been talking about the importance of making your privileges transparent in order to be able to say something political. It’s something I learned from reading about intersectionality, which is a way to analyze power by looking at its different … Continue reading →

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