Monthly Archives: February 2011
“States of Being” Created in WoW
Having not grown up playing to many video games, this week’s World of Warcraft game play was certainly interesting. It was the first time I had ever played an online game like this where players interacted, joined groups, and “spoke” … Continue reading
Emergence
So I just listened to an episode of Radiolab (sort of This American Life’s nerdy little cousin) on the science of Emergence and thought it was pretty pertinent to some of our in-class discussions. They seem to go over the same examples we … Continue reading
World of Warcraft- An Entirely Relevant Narrative
In some respects, the history of Azeroth is as deeply engaged in a detailed, active history as Tolkien’s Silmarillion, the posthumous collection of narratives describing the specifics of Middle Earth from creation to outcome and every action in between. In … Continue reading
Whitman, Conscious, and the beyond.
Whitman’s work is as close to about as close to the Rhizomatic entity discused by DeLeuze and Guattari as possible. The form itself lends itself to the “radicle-chaosmos” that is the Rhizome. Although Whitman writes primarily about nature, his subjects … Continue reading
Smithsonian “Art of Video Games” Exhibition
This seems timely. The Smithsonian Institute is planning an “Art of Video Games” Exhibition, and you can actually vote for what games you want to be part of the exhibition. We sure have come a long way since this:
Philosophers vs Poet: Was Plato Wrong?
I read both Whitman and Deleuze & Guattari as assigned this past week, and my reaction to the two radically different texts set me to pondering on Plato. In his Republic, Plato posits that the perfect republic would be ruled … Continue reading
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The True Terrors of Slavery
While reading the first part of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, I found it both much easier to read as well as much more emotionally stimulating than any other novel that we have previously read. … Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Poet”
So, somehow it slipped my mind, and I forgot to include in our syllabus a really crucial essay for reading Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “The Poet.” Though this is only recommended reading, it is a fabulous essay, and one … Continue reading
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“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,–a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,–a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,–and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, … Continue reading
Aphra Kerr Lecture
Below is an event you may be interested in attending put on by Digital Media @ Pitt (DM@P). DM@P Speaker Series: Aphra Kerr Lecture Friday, February 25, 2011 3pm, 501 CL Contemporary social theorists like David Harvey or Manuel Castells … Continue reading →