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Category Archives: General Features
Frobisher to Sixsmith
Time cannot permeate this sabbatical. We do not stay dead for long. Once my Luger lets me go, my birth, next time around, will be upon me in a heartbeat. Thirteen years from now we’ll meet again at Gresham, ten years later … Continue reading
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Guattari on the Post-Media Era
The emergence of these new practices of subjectivation of a post-media era will be greatly facilitated by a concerted reappropriation of communicational and information technology, assuming they increasingly allow for: 1. The formation of forms of dialogue and collective interactivity … Continue reading
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Thacker on Aesthetics and Biomedia
Whoa – well, if biotech is the after-party of the Enlightenment, then I’d hate to imagine what the hang-over the next morning will be…But what if biotech is not really about hyper-rationality, but really about something else – like aesthetics, … Continue reading
A Diagram of Principles
So the Institute of Critical Animal Studies released their new diagram of ten principles. I am reproducing it below. It got me thinking. I thought a lot. I thought so much. And then I made my own. I present to … Continue reading
merritt kopas on games and education
What I like about dys4ia over a film or textual narrative in this case is that it drives home the systematic nature of gender regulation. Too often, students come away from (often tragic) films or written accounts about gender and … Continue reading
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Flusser on life
Life on earth is a specialized formulation or organization of this peculiar solution. Essentially, life can be regarded as drops of specialized seawater that eventually dissipate into unspecialized seawater. If we can imagine another planet covered in oceans of even … Continue reading
Return To Skyrim: Communing With A Chicken in Riverwood
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Up Interviews Theron Jacobs
This isn’t content. Instead, its an index, a pointing finger that shouts “look” through its pokey-poke powers. Theron Jacobs, noted internet poet and twitterati, was interviewed by Up, which “exists as a space dedicated to writers and artists driven to create … Continue reading
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On Dishonored
Weirdly, I don’t have a lot to say about Dishonored, positive or negative. My initial impressions were profoundly bad, but everything after the second mission or so was so heavily focused around being the most vanilla experience ever that I … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, dishonored, ethics, james stanescu, video games
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On Richard Skelton
Richard Skelton haunts me. Sometimes I will be in the shower and I will just be doing the shower thing and a surge of string will come to my mind. I’ll hum for a little while. Or I will be … Continue reading
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this cage is worms 