Category: words

  • Metahaven is a new kind of graphic design team. This self-styled ‘design think tank’ is such a departure from conventional forms of practice that it is unlikely many designers have heard of them yet, particularly outside the Netherlands. Nor do they go out of their way to provide colleagues with entry points into their concerns…

  • The Art of Storytelling in Gaming by Kamal Sinclair for the Sundance Institute

    The Art of Storytelling in Gaming by Kamal Sinclair for the Sundance Institute h/t to Tracy Fullerton

  • econsociology: The original email that started Occupy Wall Street On September 17, 2011 thousands of women and men gathered in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district.  It was a day when Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) movement was publicly born, garadually receiving global attention and spawning the grassroots protests against social and economic inequality all over…

  • dreamingdigitalplay: we understand videogames, historically, as the aesthetic form of rationalization ~ we therefore argue that any engagement with videogames as a medium must be conscious of the context of their production in a capitalist system ~ we know that any analysis of videogames and their place within global capitalism must move beyond contexts of…

  • chocolate as cultural practice. Served hot, melted in milk, with mild cheese for melting and with hard corn meal biscuits for dunking. As we do in Colombia.

  • TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys…

  • hawaii-5-no: alltheselittlevoices: haleepls: hold-a-lover-close: owlturdcomix: We go forward. This is too deep to comprehend. Stop it I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE FUNNY WHY?!WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US?!?¿?!

  • Video games are Not making us more violent, study shows | Technology | The Guardian

    Video games are Not making us more violent, study shows | Technology | The Guardian

  • anniewerner: “We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world.” — Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage…

  • We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…