Digital media and cultural studies research on race, gender, and power in videogames. More →
Today N. Katherine Hayles gave a talk as part of a speaker series on Science Fiction at the University of California, Riverside. It was entitled “Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End and the Macropolitics of Global Spatialization.” She set up a productive binary between the conservative transhumanist tendencies in theory and art and more progressive posthumanist tendencies. As she argued, transhumanism [...]
Crossposted on Gameology. Read part 2 here. Interactive media artist Erik Loyer, perhaps most well known to academics as Creative Director of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology visited the University of California, Riverside earlier this week to give a talk titled “Stories as Instruments.” Loyer explained his design philosophy that games should break free of the restrictions of [...]
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