Dec 10, 2015
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It's a big could but a could nonetheless. American comics scholars often wonder why comic books just don't reach the level of popular respect as they do in other countries like France, Japan and It...
Margaret Atwood, a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's literature, is tackling a new genre: comic books. Atwood will be penning a new comic series for Dark Horse Comics c...
Pearce: Would have been nice to have this a few weeks ago!
That is really my only thought as I read this -- it would have been great to have this as the starting conversation.and maybe then gone to Esslin. I think this would have been a good framework to discuss how narrative was working within the games. It all seems pretty straightforward, so i don’t really know what to say about it. I liked the comparison about movie-game vs, game-movie transitions and why the movie-game works better. I was also amused by her fascination with Harrison Ford as a video game hero/character!
Then I started thinking about having a video game based on The Hours or some other movie inspired by literature. I mean, they now have Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson action figures! Those games could be combined with something like The Sims. You could create a world full of dead authors, for example, or the world of Wuthering Heights. I don’t think they have to be action/adventure games at all. WWJD -- What Would Jane (Austen) Do?
Hacker Manifesto
Sorry, but all this stuff that Ensslin is talking about is right up my alley and so I just feel like I want to share as much as I can! She talks about literary gamers coming from the same tradition often as Hackers. I give this to my comp students every semester when we write manifestos. Enjoy.
The Hacker Manifesto
by +++The Mentor+++ Written January 8, 1986
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
This is a detouned film from the early 1970s, Can Dialectics Break Bricks. It is an Asian martial arts film with Marxist dialogue added to it in French and then English subtitles. (I have a copy of anyone wants to have a movie night.) This kind of work by the Situationists is MUCH more interesting than Christos covering the trees in Central Park with white plastic and predates Christos by about 20 years.
Little Red Riding Hood’s Derive
0I really have to start reading Ensslin BEFORE I start playing these games! Viewing The Path as a derive totally makes sense to me now and the way you must meander off the path. Playing these games for class, where you are trying to see what the “endgame” is, to see where it’s going, is kind of like reading a textbook that switches back and forth from Russian to English to Swahili. It’s easy to get caught up in the completion and forget that appreciating the languages is part of the trip, part of the derive.
Ensslin also makes a lot of sense and I knew where she was going when she started critiquing the way the military uses video games for training purposes, either officially, or unofficially. I have friends that tell me about this from 20 years ago when they served in the military.
I can totally see myself playing these for fun over break. I really enjoyed both of these games this week, which is appropriate both from a literary avant garde and a ludic perspective.
BTW, I also played stud poetry, which was a nice break because it was easy to figure out what was going on in that game and you could get better quickly. And I am kind of a shark at poker.
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DECATUR, IL—A three-member panel of 10-year-old Michael Nogroski's fellow classmates at Nathaniel Macon Elementary School unanimously agreed Tuesday that his 327-word essay