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If you’re of the opinion that [feminist] agenda doesn’t belong in games, then, I don’t know, read Gamespot. Gaming journalist and critic Leigh Alexander, speaking at this week’s Games Now! lecture event in Helsinki, responds to Gamergate members in the audience. (The exchange starts around 58:10): “The idea that someone can be objective when they’re…
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Gilberto Gil’s extraordinary engagement with Brazilians [2005]
mostlysignssomeportents: We arrived in the middle of a concert. Gil was asked to speak. As he went to the mic, the tent fell silent. Hundreds were packed into a tiny space. Gil began to describe the work of the Lula government to support free software, and free culture, when a debate broke out. I don’t…
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New book on ‘Design Ethnography’ by Nicolas Nova
New book on ‘Design Ethnography’ by Nicolas Nova looks good.
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Call for Papers: Extrapolation special issue on Indigenous Futurism
jhameia: Extrapolation special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, (Anishinaabe), Michael Levy, and John Rieder. In the last decade and a half, a number of scholars have explored the way that SF throughout the last century and a half has borne a close relationship to colonial, and later postcolonial history, discourses, and ideologies.…
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One Week of Harassment on Twitter
I am grateful for femfreq’s perseverance. I will continue to attempt to be a better ally. femfreq: Ever since I began my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project, two and a half years ago, I’ve been harassed on a daily basis by irate gamers angry at my critiques of sexism in video games. It…
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“Mechanistic muses are expanding their domain to encompass every facet of creative activity.” In this article published in the June 1965 issue of Playboy, Bell Labs engineer, communications satellite pioneer and science fiction writer John R. Pierce introduces the work done in computer music, literature, film, and visual art, and issues an invitation to artists…
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chartier: Leigh Alexander had a chat with a GamerGater at a recent talk, got to the heart of the matter: The idea that someone can be objective when they’re talking about an emotional creative medium is fallacious. (if you have to, there’s no shame in looking up the definition of fallacious) You can’t offer an…
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shrinkrants: GREGORY BATESON “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step…
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Cloudy Logic
Cloudy Logic To Read against the Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the moment higher ed died in the US. The LA Times is also cited: thenewinquiry: By Robin James Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes. While Theodor Adorno was exiled in Los Angeles, he…
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The collusion between philosophy and the State was most explicitly enacted in the first decade of the nineteenth century with the foundation of the University of Berlin, which was to become the model of higher learning throughout Europe and in the United States. The goal laid out for it by Wilhelm von Humboldt (based on…