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Tag Archives: theory
Rasmussen and Architecture
A painter’s sketch is a purely personal document; his brush stroke is as individual as his handwriting; an imitation of it is a forgery. This is not true of architecture. The architect remains anonymously in the background. Here again he … Continue reading
Riff Raff on Representation in His Work
1:17 into the video Riff Raff says this: Maybe he got spiritual after he heard my songs. I mean my music ain’t just like music (mumbles) there’s a lot to it. If you picture it and you write out the … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Theory
Tagged ontology, pure aesthetics, representation, riff raff, theory
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Parikka on Complicity With Anonymous Media
The archaeological method of Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia represents a theory-fiction alternative for media archaeology too. What if we employ the same hallucinatory, inspiring way of investigating the subterranean, the secret, the ground that is not defined by stability but dynamic flux of sediments … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged deleuze and guattari, jussi parikka, reza negarestani, theory
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Olof Dreijer on Ally Responsibility
We’ve been talking about the importance of making your privileges transparent in order to be able to say something political. It’s something I learned from reading about intersectionality, which is a way to analyze power by looking at its different … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged queer theory, quote, the knife, theory
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A Video Game Playing Itself
So Tom 7 did some stuff and created, essentially, a control algorithm that allows a game to play itself. FYI at the end of the day this is a research blog so mostly this is for personal archiving.
Posted in Theory
Tagged control, nonhuman life, robots, theory, video games
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Rhizome Profiles Alex Myers
So Alex Myers has a lot of radditude and you can look at his blog and his twitter for constant updates on his life. I constantly want to write at length about Alex, but I’ve yet to spend the time … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged alex myers, philosophy, rhizome, theory, video games
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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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