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Category Archives: Theory
Tom Sparrow’s “Plastic Bodies” is Out!
I’m super excited about this book and it is free so go check it out. The blurb: Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism … Continue reading
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Tagged philosophy, plastic bodies, tom sparrow
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Julie Cruikshank on Glaciers
Surging glaciers engage the senses. Visually, they are spectacular. Aurally, they are alarmingly noisy. Hunters, scientists, hikers, and Aboriginal elders all remark on the thunderous cracking and explosive noises they make. Tactile imagery is central to many stories that portray … Continue reading
de Certeau on Writing and Death
To write (this book), then, is to be forced to march through enemy territory, in the very area where loss prevails, beyond the protected domain that had been delimited by the act of localizing death elsewhere. It is to produce … Continue reading
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Tagged death, michel de certeau, writing
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The Unbearable Videogame
Today I am at The Midwestern Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference giving a talk. I’m posting it and the slides that accompany it up here on the blog for all to see! When I have time, I am going to make this … Continue reading
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Tagged conference paper, the unbearable, theory, video games
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Varoufakis on Piketty and Power
You might know Varoufakis as the new Greek Finance Minister who basically has the world by the throat. I came to know him via his previous job at Valve as a market analyst/director/weird practical research guy. When he was at … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, karl marx, power, thomas piketty, varoufakis
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Horkheimer and Adorno on Culture and Advertising
Culture is a paradoxical commodity. It is so completely subject to the law of exchange that it is no longer exchanged; it is so blindly equated with use that it can no longer be used. For this reason it merges … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, max horkheimer, the dialectic of enlightenment, the frankfurt school;, theodore adorno
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On Video Games, Content, and Expression
Frank Lantz recently wrote a post at Gamasutra about formalism. It is fundamentally about the stakes of formalism, what self-described formalists do and do not do, and how he sees the current world of video games. The much-quoted paragraph … Continue reading
Posted in Theory, Video Games
Tagged content and expression, deleuze and guattari, form and content, frank lantz
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Now You’re John Hammond: Accelerationism and The Lost World
1. John Hammond in The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Now, after the accident in the Park, Hurricane Clarisse wiped out our facility on Site B. Call is a “act of God”. But; we had to evacuate of course, and the animals … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerationism, john hammond, jurassic park, the lost world, theory
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On Amazon Echo
A few weeks ago I unboxed my Amazon Echo and learned that I had to say “Alexa” in order to ask it to do things for me. It sits there on my counter, silent, until I say her name and … Continue reading
Sunaura Taylor on disability and animals
Disability is everywhere in animal agriculture, and especially factory farms. The animals people eat are largely manufactured to be disabled. Animals are bred to have too much muscle for their bodies to hold, cows and chickens develop broken bones and … Continue reading
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this cage is worms 