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Tag Archives: death
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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Taussig on Calling from Two Sides
Months later at night, drinking the strong medicine which makes your head swim, singing the while in ebbs and flows of pictures, the topic of these kids came up. I strongly doubt that the healer and I would have talked … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged death, georges bataille, michael taussig, satanas, theory
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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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On the Death of Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall is gone. There isn’t much for me to say. It is hard to speak of an absence felt so clearly that it becomes present — Stuart Hall’s death is less the loss of a person and more the … Continue reading
State of Decay – The First Two Deaths
Marcus drove his car up to the abandoned church slowly. He was looking for a friend who needed help hunting a Feral. He had never seen a Feral before. There was something in the doorway of the church. Marcus didn’t … Continue reading
Call of Duty: Ghosts – Death as a Language
In Call of Duty: Ghosts there is a map called “Whiteout” and within that map I often wander. I roam the map in solitude because despite always coming to this map in order to play team-based activities, I never manage to play … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged call of duty: ghosts, death, language, video games
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On The 3 Snake Leaves
Emily Carroll is probably my favorite working comics author right now (only surpassing James Kochalka because American Elf is over and I have no interest in J.K.’s other work). His Face All Red is the pinnacle of horror comics, and Margot’s Room absolutely destroys me in … Continue reading
Posted in Comics
Tagged comics, death, emily carroll, the 3 snake leaves
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James Kochalka’s Father
James Kochalka’s father died. And this is a death that effects me in a weird way. I don’t know James Kochalka personally. But I have read every single published diary comic that he has released, short of some stuff in … Continue reading
On Limbo
I am behind the times. I got Limbo as part of the Humble Bundle V, and I took this morning to play through it. My opinion? It is a mediocre puzzle game with a heavy dose of Tim Burton-esque aesthetics. … Continue reading
Two Kinds of Video Game Death
There are two kinds of death in video games. 1. Halo death. This death is characterized by out inability to understand it or perceive it as death. In reality, this is your standard FPS kind of death, a “bang bang you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged affective death, death, halo death, video games, violence
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