Christian McCrea

For you.

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:57:15 -0400

For you.

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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:12:08 -0400

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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:10:53 -0400

[NES] Super Mario Bros

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:34:00 -0400

zenofgamedesign:

[NES] The Legend of Zelda

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:33:52 -0400

zenofgamedesign:

[Game Boy] Pokemon Red / Green

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:31:54 -0400

zenofgamedesign:

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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:21:07 -0400

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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:59:08 -0400

blaaargh: Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait in Studio, 1930s

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:17:30 -0400

blaaargh:

Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait in Studio, 1930s

blaaargh: Adolf de Meyer, [Self-Portrait in India], 1900

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:17:23 -0400

blaaargh:

Adolf de Meyer, [Self-Portrait in India], 1900

havinghorns: never finished this! yergh

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:44:16 -0400

havinghorns:

never finished this!

yergh

peira: Emile Friant: Les Canotiers de la Meurthe (1888)

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:24:46 -0400

peira:

Emile Friant: Les Canotiers de la Meurthe (1888)

androphilia: From Lee Paton’s Autumn/Winter 2012-2013...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:55:55 -0400

androphilia:

From Lee Paton’s Autumn/Winter 2012-2013 Collection Haakon’s Plateau

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Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:44:42 -0400

androphilia: Brodie Lee

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:44:36 -0400

androphilia:

Brodie Lee

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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:16:43 -0400

seabois: the fruits of the earth, edward detmold

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:16:40 -0400

seabois:

the fruits of the earth, edward detmold

not-magnific3nt: http://not-magnific3nt.tumblr.com/ follow :3

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:28:34 -0400

not-magnific3nt:

http://not-magnific3nt.tumblr.com/ follow :3

androphilia: Portrait Of Prospero Alessandri By Giovanni...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:27:10 -0400

androphilia:

Portrait Of Prospero Alessandri By Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1560

Abstract: Undoing The Ideal Image of the Player

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:04:49 -0400

(Submitted to Under The Mask 2012)

The proposition of a ‘convergence culture’ has built a series of dangerously mythic cultural imperatives for the technocratic class. These imperatives often draw down from videogame design and culture to perform a series of increasingly unlikely tasks. Games are being summoned to save education, save libraries, save the electoral process, save the environment, save the economy and help stage manage the narrative of a converging technological society. These missions are often built on false premises about players themselves.

For cultural studies and the broader humanities, games have long been used as a touchstone for changes in our symbiotic relationship with the technological, positioned as a curious junction of leisure and capital. With material ontologies now forming a discursive tract, from object-oriented ontology to the material turn in cultural studies, traces of a videogame materiality are now emerging. The last few years has seen such approaches inform the anthropology of games, player studies, and become part of the ‘proceduralism’ fracas.

This paper will suggest two notions; the orthodox and the ideal, continue to frame our concepts of videogame players, and how we have built methods for material approaches. For example, most experiences of retail videogames are made possible by piracy, trading and second-hand markets. Rather than propose this as a new idea, this paper will examine the broad consequence of this growing trend inside game studies and ask what questions we may have already solved, and what problems we can go on to create for technocrats eager to capture games’ precarious position in culture.