Category Archives: General Features

Galloway on Images

Posted on 02/08/2013 by kunzelman

One of the key consequences of the control society is that we have moved from a condition in which singular machines produce proliferations of images, into a condition in which multitudes of machines produce singular images. As evidence for the … Continue reading →

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Can We Kindly? by Samantha Allen

Posted on 02/07/2013 by kunzelman

This is a guest post, which isn’t a normal thing for this blog, but I read Samantha’s piece and immediately offered to put it here. So here it is. – CK -+-+-+-+-+- Samantha Allen is a transgender woman, ex-Mormon and … Continue reading →

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On Tegan and Sara’s “Heartthrob”

Posted on 01/31/2013 by kunzelman

Tegan and Sara have a new album out, their first since sometimes’ Sainthood. It is an album, so there is a single. For the rest of what I am going to write, I need you to listen to the single and watch … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground Interview with Gary Genosko

Posted on 01/30/2013 by kunzelman

As you see, I’m bad at giving advice. I can barely recommend readings. Books are toolboxes. They help to solve problems, answer questions, ask the right questions. They can be read in any way you can invent. They can be … Continue reading →

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Supplement to my Queer Games Talk At Strange Relations

Posted on 01/24/2013 by kunzelman

So this is the supplement to my talk “Machines and Connective Tissue: The Queer Renaissance in Video Games.” Articles/Blog Posts/Words I think it is profoundly important to avoid speaking for, especially when the queer games community is a very prolific … Continue reading →

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The Robo-proletariat

Posted on 01/23/2013 by kunzelman

In a continuing cycle where Ben Abraham writes something, Daniel Joseph responds, and I comment on what they both wrote, here I am doing it again. Ben wrote a post titled “The End-Game of Labour Automation Meets Social Media” in … Continue reading →

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Mattie, Maddy, and Me

Posted on 01/18/2013 by kunzelman

There are two essays that you need to read before reading what I am about to write: Mattie Brice – “Would You Kindly” Maddy Myers – “Why Do I Like Violent Video Games So Much” These essays share a topic–violence … Continue reading →

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Halberstam on disciplinarity

Posted on 01/16/2013 by kunzelman

Indeed terms like serious and rigorous tend to be code words, in academia as well as other contexts, for disciplinary correctness; they signal a form of training and learning that confirms what is already known according to approved methods of knowing, but they do … Continue reading →

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Lots of People Are Liking “Oh No”

Posted on 01/11/2013 by kunzelman

So Oh No, my game about escaping Michel Foucault, has been enjoyed by quite a few people. First there was this Metafilter thread. Then there was this Paris Review blog post. It led me to a lot of people tweeting about … Continue reading →

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Riff Raff and Haters

Posted on 01/11/2013 by kunzelman

In an interview with VLADTV, Riff Raff was asked about haters. It starts at about 1:53 into the video. How do you deal with haters? I don’t. That’s the whole deal. I don’t deal with them. Because no matter what … Continue reading →

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