I'm excited to announce that I am the new acquiring editor for books in game studies, the digital humanities and new media, and HCI for @mitpress! Feel free to send me your questions, ideas, pitches, etc ...
TOMORROW!
Repairing Play: A Playlist (w/ @aarontram)
Thurs. Nov. 14th, 7pm - 8:30pm
370 Jay Street, Room 202
This talk will be a playful-joyus, yet also sorrowful and mournful-reading from Repairing Play juxtaposed against music from the book.
RSVP Here: repairingplay.eventbrite.com
Hallucinate This! makes a cameo in the new anthology of conputer generated text, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort out from MIT Press!
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie" is out today in @mitpress's Platform Studies series.
Get 30% off with discount code PUBDAY!
mitpress.mit.edu/97802625495…
Alright, we’re ready for day 2 of #AOIR2024 at the @mitpress booth, and we start the give away today. Stop by the booth, sign up for our mailing list, and walk away with a book tomorrow! Plus, you’ll be put in a raffle for @hegemonyrules new book, “Gaming Democracy”
Alright, we’re ready for day 2 of #AOIR2024 at the @mitpress booth, and we start the give away today. Stop by the booth, sign up for our mailing list, and walk away with a book tomorrow! Plus, you’ll be put in a raffle for @hegemonyrules new book, “Gaming Democracy”
The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
"My things to care about are stretched too thin, like too many skits on a mediocre ’90s 'classic.'"
@noahjspringer tells us why he stopped focusing on hip hop in his column: unwinnable.com/2024/10/15/th…
Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)
ALT Book cover: showing a honeycomb-like structure made out of root fibers, resembling a grid that spreads and breaks into a more chaotic, web-like pattern. Text reads 'Edited by Indrapramit Das, Deep Dream, Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, New Stories by, Vajra Chandrasekera, Bruce Sterling, Cassandra Khaw, Lavie Tidhar, Samit Basu
for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️
The essence of being human is that we are always grasping towards the totality, yet we cannot comprehend the totality due our finite nature. Of us all, Fredric Jameson perhaps came closest.
"The West is suffering from pessimism paralysis [....] It is not naive to be optimistic about our digital future. It is our moral imperative to design with hope." — Payal Arora
"From Pessimism to Promise" is available now: bit.ly/4bJOS2u#design#AI
ALT Cover of the book "From Pessimism to Promise" featuring a large yellow circle and an illustration of a hand holding a black line that gives the effect of a smiley face. The subtitle reads "Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech."