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76 – Trammell – Repairing Play

Posted November 30, 202401:45:56

We talk about Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play. It is open access on The MIT Press’s website:

75 – Jameson – Postmodernism

Posted October 31, 202402:30:56

We talk about Fredric Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” which was originally published in New Left Review in...

74 – Guerra – Slantwise Moves

Posted September 30, 202401:33:16

We talk about Douglas Guerra’s Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America.

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73 – Wardrip-Fruin – How Pac-Man Eats

Posted August 31, 202402:22:09

We talk about Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s How Pac-Man Eats.

Note: Still confirming that Riven eventually released for the Sega Saturn.

72 – Myst: Masterpiece Edition

Posted July 30, 202402:00:08

We talk about Cyan’s Myst.

Note: Riven did eventually come out for the Sega Saturn.