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Toy Theory

Posted on March 3, 2021March 16, 2021 By sethgiddings

My book, Toy Theory, will be published by MIT Press in 2023. Here’s a section of the proposal: Headline Rethinking culture, media, technology and the…

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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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toying with the singularity

Posted on August 2, 2019February 8, 2022 By sethgiddings

My chapter on the design of playful AI and robotics – and the relationships between the material, the technical and the imaginary – is…

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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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After VR… introductory thoughts

Posted on November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 By sethgiddings

part one: edit from the second edition of Lister, Dovey, Giddings, Grant & Kelly New Media: a critical introduction London: Routledge 2003, p.106+ 2.1 Whatever happened…

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