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Category Archives: Theory
Two Recent Publications Of Mine About Games
I have two newish academic publications that you might want to check out if you’re the kind of person who enjoys academic publications. The first is a piece about speculation and video game play that is published in Science Fiction Film … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged assemblages, bioshock 2, impetus, methods, publications, queers in love at the end of the world
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On At The Existentialist Café
I. I’ve been reading At The Existentialist Café a chapter at a time for a couple months now. It’s a weird way to read a book but, you know, things get in the way when you’re writing a dissertation. I barreled through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Theory
Tagged at the existentialist cafe, book, existentialism, philosophy, sarah bakewell
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Alfred Bester on What a Science Fiction Author Does
The mature science fiction author doesn’t merely tell a story about Brick Malloy vs The Giant Yeastmen from Gethsemane. He makes a statement through a story. What is the statement? Himself, his own dimension and depth. His statement is seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Books, science fiction
Tagged alfred bester, hell's cartographers, science fiction, writing
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Bernard De Koven on approaching death
If you want to do something for me or because of me, grieving is not what I need. What I need is for you to continue your play/work however you can. Play games. Play the kind of games I like to … Continue reading
Posted in Annihilation, Video Games
Tagged bernard de koven, death, play
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George Orwell on Atrocities
But unfortunately the truth about atrocities is far worse than that they are lied about and made into propaganda. The truth is that they happen. The fact often adduced as a reason for skepticism–that the same horror stories come up … Continue reading
Posted in Annihilation, Theory
Tagged atrocities, extinction, george orwell, violence
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On X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
I. SOME HISTORY Fox’s X-Men franchise has had more hits than misses. 2000’s X-Men was an excellent introduction to the world and the film franchise’s core character Wolverine. Following three years later, X2 solidified many of the themes that director Bryan Singer evoked in the first … Continue reading
A Thousand Plateaus as thriller
The first thought that came to my mind after finishing A Thousand Plateaus for the nth time for my comps is that you could read it as a thriller contemporary thriller novel. It has all the trappings of a Dan Brown novel: there … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged a thousand plateaus, deleuze and guattari, diagram, genre, thriller
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Radiation, Animals, Media
Ron Broglio has a short article up at The Atlantic that does a little bit of delving into the animals who live in and around highly radioactive sites like Chernobyl. There’s something really interesting going on with the example of the radioactive … Continue reading
Justin Erik Halldór Smith on the Badiou Studies Hoax
I would normally excerpt something here so that you could get a sense of what’s happening in the piece, but Smith’s short essay is really well put together and I had a hard time choosing a paragraph that made sense … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged alain badiou, badiou studies, communism, Justin Erik Halldór Smith, theory
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Robert Macfarlane on Anthropocene Affects
Where the pain of nostalgia arises from moving away, the pain of solastalgia arises from staying put. Where the pain of nostalgia can be mitigated by return, the pain of solastalgia tends to be irreversible. Solastalgia is not a malady … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, anthropocene, robert macfarlane, solastalgia
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