Embodying Difficulty: Occlusion and Indirection as Mechanics
Liz Ryerson’s Problem Attic does not ask players to overcome difficulty (both affectively and mechanically), but rather asks players to...
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The Curious Case of Completionism
The first step to solving a problem is admitting it, they say. I am a completionist (to a degree). I attempt to 100% Assassin's Creed...
Games for Public Health
During the last year, I worked at a nonprofit sexual trauma agency. I was in the Education/Prevention department, so my job was to...
Tactical hacktivism or a politics of opacity? Rita Raley and Zach Blas
Last week we read Rita Raley's "Tactical Media as Virtuosic Performance" (2009) and Zach Blas and Jacob Gaboury's "Biometrics and...
Against Art Games
I have something to get off of my chest. I hate the term “art games.” I’ve felt this for a long time, but I just keep mulling it over in...
On Avant-Gardes
The readings this past week, both for Tuesday and Thursday, left me thinking about the concept of political art. As was mentioned in...
Morgan Stanley and the beauty industry
It didn't come up in our class discussion, but I was distracted by Morgan Stanley's inattention to or compartmentalizing of makeup,...
Queer 90's films - tactical media?
Using India’s great definition of tactical media as “temporary performative interventions in the media ecology” brought me to a place...
The Stanley Parable: A True Countergame
In his “Countergaming” article, Galloway lays the groundwork for a new movement in video game media, analogous to the countercinema...
Certeau and Tactical Media
I'm retroactively posting on Rita Raley's "Introduction: Tactical Media as Virtuosic Performance" that we discussed in class on Thursday,...
On Time Crystals and Interfaces
In his (extremely dense) essay, "Machines to Crystalize Time", Maurizio Lazzarato argues for an understanding of video as a technology...
Alternate Reality Games and Tactical Media
After the Rita Raley reading, my current understanding is that Tactical Media are temporary, performative interventions in the media...
Radicalizing Gameplay: Users as Programmers
This week's readings have really inspired me, especially since I focus mostly on games. For this post, I'd like to connect Chun's remarks...
Rita Raley, Mark Zuckerberg, and Revolutionary Futures
I read Rita Raley and found myself thinking about Mark Zuckerberg. I worked as a reporter in Washington before coming to Chicago, and...
Modding Literature
The occasion of reading Galloway’s “Countergaming” made me think about whether the terms and techniques around modding exist in other...
The Control Society of Trucking
While reading Gilles Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control, I recalled a Vox video I had recently watched on the eventual...
"As We May Think" and the Gimmick of the Obsolete
Hi all, I didn’t get my blogger permissions worked out until just now, so here’s a belated meditation on how Vannevar Bush’s 1945 essay...
Digital Media and the Problems of Agency and Interactivity
Last Thursday, the word “agency” came up in class around Hansen’s concept of “presencing.” Someone had been wondering what a working...
mitchell, hansen, peters: preliminary thoughts
(N.B. I am treating this blog post chiefly as an opportunity to think aloud through this week’s readings, and plan on completely...
Blogger Capabilities/Protocol
In addition to the comment function, the Wix blog has a number of applications that can enhance your experience in the course: 1. Follow...
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