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Category Archives: Theory
Review of Alien Phenomenology at Itineration
So I reviewed Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology for the online journal Itineration. You can view it here. It should be viewed this way: 1. read the review proper 2. listen and watch the computer performance of the review 3. read my review … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged alien phenomenology, ian bogost, itineration, review
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Nick Briz’s Apple Computers
Ben Syverson: That’s part of getting yourself in another ecosystem. It’s about adapting and the constraints and they force you to do this thing that you don’t necessarily want to do but you have to do it because if you … Continue reading
On Astrid’s Animation
There aren’t many positions for characters to be in when you are playing Skyrim. They’re walking, they’re standing, they’re fighting. The Jarls, basically the lords of the different holds, have an pose where they lounge far back in their chairs. But … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged skyrim, the dark brotherhood, theory, video games, visual rhetoric
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Parikka on material incompatibility
Forget smooth, start with the rough. What if we assume a fundamental incompatibility? What if we assume that by their nature, things don’t fit in? Not with the world, not with themselves; incompatibility is not a contingency or if it … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged jussi parikka, materiality, quote, theory
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Quotidian Fiction Tweets About Philosophers
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Josephine Saxton on science fiction
What I would really like is for readers to read my work, not only SF fans, who have, like rubber fetishists and gourmets, Special Tastes, and often cannot enjoy anything outside their label. Let me put in a plea, not … Continue reading
Interviews with Steven Shaviro and Anthony Paul Smith
So two people I think do great work have had interviews come out in the past little while and I wanted to provide some links. First, Steven Shaviro was interviewed at Figure/Ground (which is the place for rad interviews these days, … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged anthony paul smith, figure/ground, interview, steven shaviro, the charnel-house
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Figure/Ground Interview with Anthony Paul Smith
What effect has the information age and technology had on the university and on pedagogy? I take a kind of Deleuzian approach to the question of technology and pedagogy. Very simply, too simply probably, one of the lessons of the … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged anthony paul smith, education, figure/ground, interview, theory
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Galloway on Images
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
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged alexander galloway, images, the interface effect
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Riff Raff on Interpretation
So that is an interview where Riff Raff talks about his work ethic and about how he coming up in the world of rap. But he also talks about audience reception of his songs. I’ve transcribed Riff Raff on haters … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Theory
Tagged pure aesthetics, rap, riff raff, video
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