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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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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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“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…