Tag: subjectivity

18 Oct

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Inglorious Basterds and Train of Life, two modern reimaginings of holocaust resistance – are they just lofty fantasy, or something more?

 
By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Human Rights, Literature, Movies
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12 Oct

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

 
By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Video Games
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16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

 
By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Video Games
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12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

 
By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Literature, Video Games
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28 Aug

Meshing the virtual and real

Meshing the virtual and real

Virtual worlds offer us freedom from the boundaries of reality. So why do we project the problems of the world into our second lives? By Alex Cybulski.

 
By Alex Cybulski
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Technology, Video Games
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07 Aug

Gaming with the Formalists Part II: New Games Journalism

Gaming with the Formalists Part II: New Games Journalism

Should videogame criticism be more about the gamer than the game?

 
By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Journalism, Video Games
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