Of Mechropolitics and Men
The USA is undergoing a tragic, seemingly endless epidemic of mass shootings, which the National Rifle Association-funded Republicans...
On strike
My union is on strike over the dismantling of our pensions, so I'm not working today. In closing all my tabs, I did edit a few things on...
Playing against fear
A friend of mind recently posted this intensely pessimistic piece by Umair Haque, with the comment that it feels overstated but maybe it...
The Kafkaesque Beginner's Guide
*Huge spoilers for Davey Wreden's The Beginner's Guide (2015) and also a lot of Kafka stories (but, come on, it's been like a hundred...
Playing Feminist (fun!)
In Feminist Challenge 2k18, self-proclaimed "friendly neighborhood feminist" Lydia sends out a series of challenges once a week over the...
Braid and #metoo
“I’m hanging on in there,” said Harvey Weinstein, in the wake of revelations about a pattern of abuse that has upended the entertainment...
Meow Wolf and archival adventuring
I was recently in Albuquerque for a wedding (yay Liz and Tyler!) and was thrilled to be able to check out The House of Eternal Return,...
Hard fun and work-play
On a train between North Wales and London, I read the first 100 pages of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow, the most famous psychology book...
Thomas was alone.
Thomas was alone came out in 2012 and received an indulgent amount of credit for featuring empathetic and empathy-producing 2D...
80 Days of queerness, class tension, and decolonization
In 80 Days, the wildly acclaimed interactive narrative game from Inkle Studios, you play a greatly expanded form of Jules Verne's classic...