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Here is my old blog about videogames, SLRC.
Here is my machinima novel, "Permanent Death".
Here is a list of some of the best videogame criticism of the past few years.
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Category Archives: Essays
Ada Lovelace Day 2011: Talking ’bout Ms Morrison
So it’s Ada Lovelace day again, and I thought I’d talk briefly about the impact that Ms Morrison, my year 11 & 12 maths teacher had on me. She was the first (and only) maths teacher to succeed at making … Continue reading
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Orwell on miners; the working-class; and unemployment in the 30s
I’m reading George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, as a re-tweet from my diligent twitter friend Sam_Crisp alerted me to the fact that the University of Adelaide is periodically releasing out-of-copyright e-books (and Orwell, having been dead 50 years is now … Continue reading
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Facebook, lolcats, and matters-of-concern
So an unexpected thing happened recently: my Facebook-ing practice rather drastically changed. Primarily I used to use Facebook as a place to post interesting links to things worth reading – new research and reports on social trends for good or … Continue reading
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Some thoughts on Pete Ashton’s FYPA.net
Alright so this is going to be some nit-picky bullshit because that’s what I’m training to do. A Doctor of Philosophy is a nitpicky asshole and eventually I’m going to have to prove to the world academy that I know … Continue reading
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Abstract: Neuroscience and the digital community: what next for the notion of ‘the individual’?
The following abstract was accepted for the international conference ‘Knowledge/Culture/Social Change‘ to be held in Sydney, Australia in November. The ‘individual’ has attained an unparalleled level of success and acceptance, with the DNA of all major political and economic theories … Continue reading
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Ben Abraham interviews Ben Abraham
I was having trouble writing proper blog posts, so I decided to interview myself. After all, who better to know the good questions to ask me than myself? So here we go. Ben: What are you interested in right now? … Continue reading
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The New Situationist International
I read the introductory few pages of McKenzie Wark’s The Beach Beneath The Street and was immediately inspired to organise or join an artist/philosophical collective like the Situationist International. I don’t have a great understanding of them, their goals and … Continue reading
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Philosophy is encouraging
Philosophy is the invention of strange forms of argumentation, necessarily bordering on sophistry, which remains it’s dark structural double. To philosophize is always to develop an idea whose elaboration and defence require a novel kind of argumentation, the model for … Continue reading
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Abstract: More fun writing than playing: the critical videogame blogosphere as emerging approach to knowledge creation
As I said in my stereotypical update post, I’ve been writing a paper to present at a conference in Oxford, in July. Here’s the abstract and the bibliography for the paper, to whet your interest in the final piece (which … Continue reading
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Why do I write?
Why do I write? I haven’t stopped to think about it lately, and I probably should. So I sat down for an afternoon and tried to come up with all the reasons why I write. Here, in no particular order, … Continue reading
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