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Issue 2.2 Previous Issues

Explorations in the Ergodic

Ash Ogden March 26, 2013 5 Comments Ayn Rand computer games digital cartographies digital culture digital media Donna Haraway ergodic literature Eric Zimmerman Espen J. Aarseth Gaming Literacy House of Leaves identity Indra Sinha literature Mark Z. Danielewski new media Night of January 16th subjectivity The Cybergypsies videogames studies

As our lives become more networked, people are engaging more and more with structures. But they are not merely inhabiting these structures – they are…

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Androids in the Academy

Zara Dinnen October 1, 2012 5 Comments android Apple cyborg David digital culture electronic literature Happy Birthday David HCI Human Computer Interaction hypertext iPhone 4S machine Michael Fassbender new media Nicholas Royle personal assistant personal computing posthumanism Prometheus queer Ridley Scott robot science fiction Siri Technology uncanny valley video games

There is something uncomfortable about David, the android from Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus. This is partly due to the various interpellations…

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Issue 1.5 Previous Issues

Ulysses as an RPG

Alistair Brown October 1, 2012 3 Comments Bildungsroman Elder Scrolls ergodic literature Fallout 3 game theory grinding inter texts James Joyce ludic ludology modernism new media roleplaying games RPGs temporality Ulysses

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles,” Joyce famously said of Ulysses, “it’ll keep the professors busy for centuries” (Ellmann 521). Having reinvented the novel…

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