“Defacing the Face”: Non-visibility & Queer Protest in Zach Blas’s Facial Weaponization Suite

As I mentioned in my first post, my interest in Zach Blas and his piece Facial Weaponization Suite, has led me to include his supplementary paper on the project in a sort…

Failure, Precarity & Performance: A Scene Report

Failure, of course, goes hand in hand with capitalism. - Judith Halberstam

Real Recognize Real & You Lookin’ Unfamiliar

or Setting the Stage

What is the difference between a rhetorical question and a regular question?

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Thoughts on Galloway’s Thoughts.

So I decided that my Bataille secondary source reading wasn’t fully formed enough so I got into some of Alexander Galloway’s thoughts on games (I guess this is what research feels like). His chapter in Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture "Origins of the First-Person…

Social Media x Gaming: Final Thoughts

“21st century experience is simultaneously slackened and overstimulated, 24/7 and always on. The value of social media, casual games, and networked connection lie with the way that they enable a subject to divest from the burden of selfhood” (Hodge 18).

Saving Every Ten Minutes: Twine is Fun

Before I get into explaining the concepts and gameplay mechanics of the Twine game I am currently finishing up, I want to talk about how the process has made me feel. A major component in my game is screenshots, and especially screenshots of my own finder menu…

Bleeding Out/Mixed Blood

Georges Bataille seems to serve networked play in games very well because of the way that eroticism is discussed in…

FPEG: First Person Explorative Games

I have so many half-baked blogposts right now (I might just post all of my ideas in a collection at the end (?) of this project just to show how much more tangential and impractical this shit could have gotten), but here is another one. I started doing more…

Fortifying “The Line”

or Some Stuff About Single Player Campaigns v. Multiplayer Matches

*Nothing written here is meant to convey the idea that I or any contributors to this publication mean to draw a direct connection between video game…