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If we were talking about the murder of my child, I would not be dignified. I would be naked and hideous with my grief. I would rage. If I were murdered in such a manner, I would want people to rage on my behalf. I would want to be remembered loudly, with fire. Such visible…
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When the developer Richard Hofmeier won the grand prize at the Independent Games Festival that year for Cart Life, he celebrated his win by spray painting the words “HOWLING DOGS” across his booth, replacing his game with hers and telling people to play it. “I don’t want to say that it’s fun or I love…
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This theme of interdependence is central to Iñupiat stories, no doubt born of the need to help one another in order to survive the harsh Alaskan conditions. It’s a message Never Alone seeks to impart through both its spoken narration (which has been recorded in Iñupiat) and the unspoken story communicated by its rules and…
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For more than three thousand years, the Iñupiat people of Alaska have passed on stories to their children. Like all enduring fiction, the stories deliver truths that transcend cultural shifts. They act as seeds of moral instruction and help to define and preserve the community’s identity. The story of Kunuuksaayuka, for example, is a simple…
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Szymon Bojko | 1917–2014
ourrisd: Szymon Bojko, who brought his enormous love of art and life to RISD from 1984–2001, passed away on October 24, 2014 at age 97. He had been living in a nursing home outside of Warsaw, Poland for the past two years. Larger in spirit than his stature might suggest, the Polish scholar and art…
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kateoplis: Gabriel García Márquez’s archive, which contains manuscripts, notebooks, photo albums, correspondence and personal artifacts, including two Smith Corona typewriters and five Apple computers, is going to the University of Texas.
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Barthes goes so far as to define ideology as the process of colonization itself: the occupation, exploitation, incorporation, and hegemonic domination of meaning—by meaning. Chela Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed (via differentialmovement)
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Generation X is tired. It’s a parent now, and there’s always so damn much to do. Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. It wonders where its 30s went. It wonders if it still has time to catch up. Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to…
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notgames: “Oculus was extremely smooth – it did what the 90s Sunday supplements advertised VR as doing. But I’m still in doubt as to whether very many people will want to do it. We already attain full immersion with flat screens, simply by being very interested in the content.” — William Gibson and if we…