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Why do you Give a Fuck if Bridget is Trans?

Some Thoughts on Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

I want to begin by saying that I deeply respect the Glitch Feminism is doing in constructing a queer feminist framework for the progressive potential of technology in the development of self-concepts existing in oppposition to the hegemonic structures of patriarchy, white supremacy, heteronormativity, and capital. I also want to say that the Legacy Russell’s precise writing and citational selection has made this one of the first books that...

When Does a Glitch Lose its Innocence?

Glitches in video games are funny. As a form of non-sequitor they allow our minds to draw connections between sometimes distant concepts and also implicitly deconstruct our active perceptions about the game worlds they occur in. A glitch is interrupts until it is reintegrated into understanding or purged understood as something that should not be.

Talking to Skulls, Elsinore, Shakespeare, and Hells We Choose

Elsinore uses the relationship between its mechanics and setting to contend with its status of a Shaekspearian adaptation and to communicate nuances of character and theme. Through the injection of diegetic time-looping into the original play the game can properly homage the original telling and create a space for play. By casting Ophelia as the star through each loop, Elsinore can rationalize the top-down view of the world and...

pana telo pi oka (Crying)

When I cry it usually comes as the result of a great confluence of factors: ongoing lacks of sleep, late estrogen injections (and the hardening of my mind and flush of wet lust which doesn’t feel quite proper in my blood), a hunger forgotten and left unaddressed (as a result of hyper-focus or hyper-distraction), isolation. When I cry, it is rarely a relief. No matter how much of a...

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The impetus for the blog arrives out of of an ongoing desire to document my thought process in regards to my research work and out of a need to engage with those topics informally. (I also wanted a space to archive my reason arts practices and my thoughts around them.) Graduate studies has required I do a lot of reading and analysis and I now regularly find my mind...