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not not animals

Posted on July 19, 2020July 19, 2020 By sethgiddings

Does it make any sense to consider virtual animals as animal in any serious way? Both the naturalistically-rendered wolves of Legend of Zelda: the…

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postindustrial playground

Posted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 By sethgiddings

[For all the changes to children’s playground equipment from the Edwardian era to today], the proprioceptic and vertiginous pleasures of swinging and sliding persist,…

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AI & the achievement of animals

Posted on July 26, 2019July 2, 2020 By sethgiddings

A stork and a wild pig in Breath of the Wild are distinct species only in a decorative sense, as mise-en-scene of the open dynamic world….

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domestic media archaeology

Posted on September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 By sethgiddings

Clearing out a small room in our house that has been used over the years as a baby’s bedroom, an office, a spare room…

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screenshot of Casino Night Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog

moments of voluptuous release

Posted on May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 By sethgiddings

[In early critical texts (mid to late 1980s) on the cultural economy of computer games] Fiske & Watts and Bernstein make reference to Roland…

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ethology (notes for a picture essay)

Posted on May 3, 2018 By sethgiddings

   

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you could vibrato it

Posted on May 4, 2016October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

A quick cut and annotation of a microethological study of the testing of Alphasphere at the Pervasive Media Studio some years ago. I’ve put…

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gesture, technology and play

Posted on August 6, 2015October 26, 2016 By sethgiddings

This is the website for a symposium organised by Helen W Kennedy, Patrick Crogan and myself at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol in…

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Animal Crossing economics

Posted on April 12, 2014September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

The clock and the world’s temporality in Animal Crossing are completely integral. The clock isn’t a measure of time, but virtual time’s arrow itself,…

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McLuhan, media, massage

Posted on August 2, 2012October 11, 2016 By admin

Contributed to a day of screenings and seminars recently at the Watershed celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s centenary. Here’s the blurb for the panel I was…

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