December 2010
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“There can be no individuality without the public and no public without...”
– Daniel Drache in Defiant Publics pp. 14.
“Students are not resouces waiting to be engineered but players with a craving...”
– Hector Rodriguez in “The Playful and the Serious”.
“Examining ancient riddles and the dialectical method in philosophic discourse,...”
– George Steiner’s introduction to Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens.
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“Civilization seems to advance through struggle; so long as there are...”
– George Steiner’s introduction to Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. Keeping in my recent theme of Der Derian’s examination of the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment-Network (MIME-NET), this seems pertinent. For the next week or two I’m focusing specifically on...
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“What does it mean when we move from what Virilio calls an “aesthetics of...”
– James Der Derian - Virtuous War Second Edition, pp. 121.
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“If she’s not exercising with a U.S. President, she is listening as her husband...”
– The Globe & Mail on Laureen Harper. I’m a person who is all about understanding how taste is intertwined with class and that low art/mass culture still has meaningful value and that individual subjectivity lends importance to everything but HAHAHAAHAA.
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Scrabble.
Me: Jurel?
Sabrina: It's an Atlantic fish.
Me: Sigh.
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Merry Xmas to me: How I learned to hate Steam →
(via @ibogost)
“Generally speaking, I like to whine about things; feel free to peruse the...”
– Tycho of Penny-Arcade. More than anybody else in the popular video gaming world I respect Tycho’s opinions and prose. This only reconfirms my suspicion that he is our Lester Bangs.
Things we like: open-ended games
canvas:
Isle of Tune is a visual music sequencer where you arrange little streets, cars, and roadside elements to make loops and songs.
Falling Sand Game is a place to play with streams of particles, directing them in experimental ways to make patterns and piles (and then exploding them).
Gotta give these a try.
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“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...”
– Julian Assange on SNL | via kateoplis (via spaceships)
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“Benjamin provides a timely account of the dangerous consequences, unintended as...”
– James Der Derian - Virtuous War pp. 43.
To me it seems that Der Derian’s take on this topic will be that videogames (at least those inside the Military Industrial Media Entertainment Network) don’t offer any imaginative alternative to “common sense” (realist)...
“Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow...”
– Microsoft, in a statement concerning the so-called “first sex game for Kinect,” a demo of which surfaced earlier this week on YouTube.
FWIW, ThriXXX still hopes to be able to offer Kinect support for its line of PC sex games set to be released next year.
[kotaku.]
(via thedailywhat)
One of the...
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“In a sense, then, war has always been a virtual reality, too transparent for...”
– James Der Derian - Virtuous War
This is an interesting pre-Iraq take on what the fusion of videogames and military hardware might mean, with some great literary flourish. I don’t know about the ultimate statement that somehow we risk “losing” the real (anymore than we lost it...
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Texas
I’m up in it.
Canadian Game Studies Association - Call for AbstractsThe 2011 Canadian Game Studies Association’s (CGSA) annual conference will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick from May 30-31, in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities. This year’s theme is “Coasts & Continents: Exploring People and Places.” We invite both national and...
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“Videogames are particularly useful tools for visualizing the logics that make up...”
– Ian Bogost - Persuasive Games
andrewfm asked: Have you ever bought videogames with research money? If so, what was the approval process like?
“I’m wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and...”
– Don Cherry
//I’m writing a letter to the CBC asking that Don resign. Tax dollars should not be going to this kind of drivel.
(via lukesimcoe)
This guy is one of Canada’s best kept secret embarrassments. Can somebody please wikileak this guy so the world can laugh at him? If America can be...
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Tea Party Nation President proposes taking vote... →
jenniferanne:
lukesimcoe:
Srsly?!
Um, doesn’t that target a serious portion of the Tea Party’s base? I wonder how that’s gonna go over within the movement… lets hope they eat themselves!
Hahahahahaha strict constitutionalism is the best. I guess they will probably want to bring back the three-fifths clause as well, which made it so slave owners got to vote for their slaves - but they were...