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Tag Archives: ethics
David Lulka on the lawn
The condition of the lawn in winter presents a more difficult set of issues. The immanence of grass presents no ethical challenge when lawns remain stagnant in the late summer heat. During winter and spring, however, immanence rears its head … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged aesthetics, david lulka, ethics, nonhumans, violence
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Lived Nonhuman Ethics
My core concern, both academically and also personally, is working through the question of what it means to be ethical to nonhumans. Most often that takes the form of the human ethical relationship to animals. That said, my ethical concerns … Continue reading
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
Posted in General Features, Video Games
Tagged animals, dishonored, ethics, james stanescu, video games
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“Creators are more important than fictional characters and corporations.”
Today was going to be my review of Kotsko’s Why We Love Sociopaths but I got busy writing something for Nightmare Mode and running errands, so that has to wait at least one more day. Instead, you get this gem that Jamaal … Continue reading
Posted in Comics
Tagged comics, dc comics, ethics, marvel comics
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More Thoughts About Video Game Pacifism
Back when that guy was playing Skyrim as a pacifist monk, I wrote about it. In fact, I had lots of things to say, and the conclusion that I came to was this: In any case, I don’t think that video game pacifism … Continue reading