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A Little Less Anecdotal, A Little More Quote Mines

Or Using Other People’s Words to Attempt Some Conclusions

Christian Sandvig quotes J. C. R. Licklider as writing “The Web’s original blueprint included the feature that any Web user could edit any Web page, which now…

Failure, Precarity & Performance: A Scene Report

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

Kind of a Break from Games, But Not Really

Or Starting to Bring Things Together

I’ve been thinking a lot about the various factors that have contributed to how I view other persons through networked communication.

“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…

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).

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…