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• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Hands-on: Sleep Is Death

  A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly the…

  April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 1 2010, 6:35pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal

  Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

  March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 4:13am | Comments

• Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

  March 1 2010, 3:27am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 2 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Flickr Las bicis de Ana y Juande.

  January 15 2010, 10:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise

  Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt…

  January 15 2010, 4:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 13 2010, 4:39am | Comments

• Bookmark From Eternity to Here

  The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

  January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 11 2010, 7:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Sleep Talkin' Man

  My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair…

  January 9 2010, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Theology for atheists

  Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

  January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

  January 4 2010, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Art Fag City » The Best of Web 2009!

  Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their discretion.…

  January 3 2010, 3:59am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds

  When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

  May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Video games can never be art

  Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages…

  April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments

• Bookmark 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why. I've…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Hands-on: Sleep Is Death

  A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly the…

  April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments

• Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

  Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

  April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 1 2010, 6:35pm | Comments

• Portfolio System of Enthalpy

  March 26 2010, 9:46am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal

  Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

  March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments

• Portfolio Raising Neanderthals

  March 11 2010, 8:35am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

  March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 4:13am | Comments

• Portfolio 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

  March 1 2010, 3:27am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 11 2010, 3:21am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

  February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments

• Vimeo

  February 2 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

  January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

• Flickr Las bicis de Ana y Juande.

  January 15 2010, 10:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise

  Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt…

  January 15 2010, 4:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 13 2010, 4:39am | Comments

• Bookmark From Eternity to Here

  The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

  January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 11 2010, 7:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Sleep Talkin' Man

  My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair…

  January 9 2010, 6:24am | Comments

• Bookmark Theology for atheists

  Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

  January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments

• Bookmark The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication

  by Bertolt Brecht In our society one can invent and perfect discoveries that still have to conquer their market and justify their existence; in other words discoveries that have not been…

  January 6 2010, 7:16am | Comments

• Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009

  Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

  January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: I shared my flesh with thinking cancer The Things - The Thing from the point of view of the thing, by Peter Watts (previously, previously, previously)

  January 4 2010, 12:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark Art Fag City » The Best of Web 2009!

  Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their discretion.…

  January 3 2010, 3:59am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

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