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July 29, 2010

Against Aca-Fandom

On Jason Mittell on Mad Men

Television scholar Jason Mittell doesn't like the television show Mad Men, and he's written an article about why. It wasn't news to me; indeed, I'm one of the interlocutors he mentions having argued with about the show on Twitter and elsewhere. I knew Jason was writing this piece and I've ...

March 20, 2010

I Wore Pixel Socks

Interview about A Slow Year

At the IGF, Adam Niese over at PixelSocks interviewed me about A Slow Year. The interview is now online, and you can read it at PixelSocks.com. Issues we discussed include the idea of the "game poem," how instructions and other meta-textual materials contribute to a work, reactions and expectations for ...

November 8, 2009

Barred Ronald

Is there a Lacanian matheme for this? ...

September 28, 2009

Hegemony and Salad Shooters

Cultural Studies, Politics, and Realism

If you're the kind of person who is the subject of Michael Bérubé's scathing critique of cultural studies in last week's Chronicle of Higher Education, then you've probably read it already. To summarize via citation, Bérubé argued that the impact of cultural studies "has the carbon footprint of a unicorn," ...

September 21, 2009

Little Black Sambo

On the aftermath of an accidental racial slur in Scribblenauts. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.

September 16, 2009

Philosophers are Worse Than Videogame Fans

A Visit to the Bestiary

When I was a philosophy undergraduate student, I had a life-changing experience in a class on the philosophy of language. It was a good class, as undergraduate classes tend to be: I learned the basics of a subject had known little about previously. The course was taught by a newly ...

September 2, 2009

You Played That? Game Studies Meets Game Criticism

My Position Paper on Game Criticism, DiGRA 2009

October 5, 2008

The Value of Theory in Digital Media Studies

A "debate" between myself and Jay Bolter

This past week, renowned new media scholar and colleague Jay Bolter and I staged a debate on theory in the study of digital media. Here's how we described it: The Digital Media program in LCC is described on its website as follows: “The Georgia Tech Digital Media Ph.D. provides both ...