Oliver Stone is one of the worst directors of all time to have acquired any sort of status. His best movies are a 6/10 at best, and all of his work has unforgivable flaws
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Oliver Stone is one of the worst directors of all time to have acquired any sort of status. His best movies are a 6/10 at best, and all of his work has unforgivable flaws
Friends! On Friday March 13th, at 14:00, the Center for Digital Play is hosting a talk by Victor Navarro-Remesal, on The Making of Zen and Slow Games.
You can read more about the talk here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/victor...
The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked.
We just didn't have a plan for what came next.
Stream and subscribe my conversation with @shirachess.bsky.social:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...
Great convo between @shirachess.bsky.social & @rushkoff.com :))) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...
My "US not veering into a new, endless war" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
In the future, when people ask me what is neoliberalism? I will show them this thread
A thread that demonstrates the neoliberal consolidation of ownership of media industries over the last 100 years in like, 5 posts, all from different accounts
Next up: Grand Theft Hamnet
A photo of the book Cryptography by Panos Louridas near a backpack.
Book check! What book is within a step and a reach of you right now?!
What are you reading!?
A book shelf with many books
I’m lying in the ground of my office reading a manuscript, so, at least all of these
Unwinnable 196 cover.
The new issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out!
Have you considered subscribing? It'd be cool if you did. $5 gets you two digital magazines a month and (until Feb 28) 95 Exploits back issues, which'll kill some time during a blizzard, eh?
unwinnable.com/subscribe/
Anyway, let's see what's inside!
Yes please!
Me, every Thanksgiving: “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Me, every Thanksgiving: “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Goodreads is doing a giveaway of Flaxman Low! Five winners will receive a free copy of my edited volume of weird paranormal mysteries.
Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social
I'm am excited to finally announce that I have been promoted to Senior Editor for Game Studies and New Media here at @mitpress.bsky.social! I can't wait to keep building these lists and seeing these fields develop for the foreseeable future. Send me your games and new media proposals!
Maybe not the perception processes, but I did just publish this book on Tuesday: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205133...
I'm am excited to finally announce that I have been promoted to Senior Editor for Game Studies and New Media here at @mitpress.bsky.social! I can't wait to keep building these lists and seeing these fields develop for the foreseeable future. Send me your games and new media proposals!
(We're still trying to bring on one new subscriber a day, and today it could be you. I hear being an @unwinnable.com subscriber makes you 37% cooler and 12% more likely to understand what people younger than you are talking about.)
Gil-Scott Heron voice: “ AI Satellite Factories on the moon”
Me holding a copy of my new book THE UNSEEN INTERNET.
Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world.
Here’s the argument:
At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.
@chiltonm.bsky.social and I are the new Books Editors for Exploits! I had the pleasure of editing this month’s review of Chain Gang All Stars.
Hand painted poster for Groundhog Day with some of the characters but mostly a giant blood soaked groundhog over a pile of dismembered corpses Manso Video Mamobi
happy groundhog day (1993) to all who celebrate
For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker
One week left to pitch! Feel free to reply/DM with any questions.
Where to start? Maybe Bounce! Or King Pong out this month from the Game Histories series? Thresholds of Digital Gameplay from Software Studies or Zen and Slow Games? Those are just the latest hits though. The Well-Read Game from last spring is great and I think you’d get a kick out of Playframes
What books have we not covered on Game Studies Study Buddies that you really want us to get to?
