Category Archives: General Features

On Bulletstorm’s Echoes

Posted on 05/31/2013 by kunzelman

This is quick, like an echo. Bulletstorm has a game mode in which you replay the most violent sections of the game over and over again in order to get the highest score possible in a kind of time attack challenge. … Continue reading →

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Rancière on the Pure Nonsense of Life

Posted on 05/30/2013 by kunzelman

The notes disappear in smoke, and the raised fist of the infant – a new kind of messiah different from Bartleby/Deleuze – celebrates, for all science, the hymn of life obstinately pursuing its own nonsense. Literary fiction has embraced the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Rancière on Art’s World

Posted on 05/24/2013 by kunzelman

Art exists as a separate world since anything whatsoever can belong to it. This is precisely one of the arguments of this book. It shows how a regime of perception, sensation, and interpretation of art is constituted and transformed by … Continue reading →

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Rancière on Life and Politics

Posted on 05/23/2013 by kunzelman

The scientific Marxist revolution certainly wanted to put an end to the workers’ reveries, along with utopian programmes. But by opposing them to the effects of real social development, it kept subordinating the end and means of action to the … Continue reading →

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On Weaponized Architecture

Posted on 05/22/2013 by kunzelman

I’ve been anticipating Leopold Lambert‘s Weaponized Architecture since I became aware of it last fall. After wrestling with Amazon pushing my order for three months, I finally bit the proverbial book bullet and ordered it from the United Kingdom. After a short … Continue reading →

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Released: Alpaca Run

Posted on 05/21/2013 by kunzelman

I’ve released a new game called Alpaca Run. Go play it! A month or so ago Samantha Allen and I went to Johnson City, TN to participate in a panel on sexism and gaming. On the way home, Samantha explained … Continue reading →

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Walter Miller’s Alien Invader

Posted on 05/20/2013 by kunzelman

It swam like an airborne jellyfish. A cluster of silver threads it seemed, tangled in a cloud of filaments–or a giant mass of dandelion fluff. It leaked out misty pseudopods, then drew them back as it pulled itself through the … Continue reading →

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On Small Town Gay Bar

Posted on 05/16/2013 by kunzelman

Small Town Gay Bar is a film by Malcolm Ingram about gay bars in the American South. Specifically, it is about Mississippi, but there’s nothing particularly unique about the location–the content of the documentary could be about anywhere in the South. … Continue reading →

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Leopold Lambert on Architecture and Occupation

Posted on 05/15/2013 by kunzelman

Occupation is a second way that architecture is used to serve military purposes. Of course one could think of the Roman Legion’s settlement and some other temporary military structures; nevertheless, it seems more interesting here to understand the word military … Continue reading →

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Frank Castle on Fighting

Posted on 05/13/2013 by kunzelman

Fighting for the people who run the world gets you stabbed in the back. You fight the wars they start and feed. You kill the monsters they create. You die from handling depleted uranium while they get rich on oil. … Continue reading →

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