Assistant Professor of Technology and Digital Media @UTAEnglish | Ex-decathlete | Agent for @DouGPT5 | Opinions seldom my own
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11 Apr 2024
Games were computational before there were computer games.
11 Apr 2024
I haven't seen the print version yet (prob in my mailbox at school), but #ConfigurationsJournal themed issue on #GameStudies is out! Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2024: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52328 #videogamestudies .@SocLitSciArts
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21 Nov 2024
AI-driven video games we watch instead of play... don't we already have a name for non-interactive moving images? Instead of figuring it as a break from video game tradition, this essay argues that the self-playing game is best understood in continuity with cinema -- as Simema.
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23 Sep 2024
Il est rare qu'un homme seul ait envie de rire
-- Sartre, La Nausée, qtd. in Fred Jameson, "The Laughter of Nausea," 1959
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24 Aug 2024
According to the Formalist point of view, mathematics should be regarded as a fully formal game played with marks on paper, and the only requirement this game need fulfill is that it does not lead to an inconsistency. To completely describe the game required setting down 1/
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However we shall demand that they be completely explicit rules requiring no infinite processes to check and that in principle they can be coded into a computing machine. In this way, questions concerning infinite sets 6/
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are replaced by questions concerning the combinatorial possibilities of a certain formal game. Then we will be able to say that certain statements are not decidable within given formal systems.
--- Paul Cohen, Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis, 1966/2008, p. 3 7/7
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13 Jul 2024
The notion that Marx is a kind of super brain that descended out of Trier in Germany at a certain moment, that he knew everything, that he wrote everything that he could see to the end of history and he just unfortunately happened to die in 1883 is really going back to the Marx
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The only Marx worth celebrating then is the Marx who is interested in thinking and in struggling on an open terrain, the Marx who offers a marxism without guarantees, a marxism without answers.
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13 Jul 2024
Good heavens, if someone teaches you where to begin, isn’t that enough?
---- Stuart Hall, "For A Marxism Without Guarantees," 1983/2022
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2 Jul 2024
All these oppositions—looking/knowing, looking/acting, appearance/reality, activity/ passivity—are much more than logical oppositions. They are what I call a partition of the sensible, a distribution of places and of the capacities or incapacities attached to those places.
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new things, if we first dismiss the presupposition of distance, second the distribution of the roles, and third the borders between territories. We don’t need to turn spectators into actors. We do need to acknowledge that every spectator is already an actor in his own story
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and that every actor is in turn the spectator of the same kind of story. We needn’t turn the ignorant into the learned or, merely out of a desire to overturn things, make the student or the ignorant person the master of his masters.
--- Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator, 2004
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