Posts by coleoptera@cybre.space
(DIR) Post #9oAaUHLFsGzAZtR9do by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-09-14T19:27:49Z
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#Books Hotel World - Ali Smith -- My second Ali Smith, and I REALLY loved this one so much I blazed through it one way on the train when I intended to read it over a round trip (back to that later). Again her use of detail is so vivid without just being paragraphs of self-indulgent description and I love how she handles usually schlocky and sentimental themes like death being a part of life and the interconnectedness of everything etc! also it was a very good hotel.
(DIR) Post #9oAaUHv3j9cqMwBkRs by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-09-14T19:33:15Z
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#Books Confabulations - John Berger -- Had to grab a book from the nearest bookstore while running to the train and luckily this was there, and cheap. It's a late collection of essays that are about kind of random topics, so I guess they swept together essays that didn't quite fit in all his other collections? (I get the feeling they weren't originally meant to appear all together bc there's a paragraph in each one about how we have to end capitalism, which is why I love him, also some beautiful drawings)
(DIR) Post #9oAaV6N893myqThs92 by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-10-21T23:02:22Z
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#Books Marx at the Arcade - Jamie Woodcock -- Really wanted to like this one but it's kind of two books and really short at the same time. The first half is about the production of games from mining to console factories to development to marketing and is great, timely, and could be expanded. The second half is more of an attempt to articulate some marxist frameworks for analyzing games as media objects which is comparatively pretty weak and uses most of the same examples of work everyone was five years ago
(DIR) Post #9oAaXSnPkDZ2yH7vNo by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-10-21T23:07:18Z
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It takes such a quick tour of these perspectives that nothing is really new or incisive (almost all of the proposed perspectives were, in the field of games crit, very basic by now) and doesn't pause near enough on topics that could do with a real marxist-tinted unpackaging, like "flow" and "immersion." It ends up making a lot of rookie mistakes just reiterating oft-repeated "common sense" about videogames ("the 1983 crash was bc of bad games!") that took away from the obvious rigor in the other sections.
(DIR) Post #9oAaYiKNU2gTQo8pxA by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-10-21T23:12:05Z
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I am harsh because I wanted this to be good! And I feel like it so often stumbles because historical materialism as a lens by itself does not produce a sound analysis when you're taking people like the Atari guys and Jane McGonigall at their word!! There were so many points where I was like, wait, you're not going to unpack that?????
(DIR) Post #9oFHOxU1M0q6CW5PeK by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-10-24T07:10:32Z
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As a bisexual, I feel especially disgusted by the cis bisexuals participating in this. How can you struggle with an ambivalent and multipart sexual orientation and not come away with the conclusion that the idea of there being a stable and concrete binary sex/gender system is an obvious scam?
(DIR) Post #9oFI5hbmFhcxPy61eS by coleoptera@cybre.space
2019-10-24T08:53:00Z
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@ghost_bird REALLY unsurprising... just like how most radfems act like they're concerned about lesbian issues or even claim to be lesbians online but are... also heterosexual
(DIR) Post #9qqEyvwpauiCtK2SPo by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-01-09T15:55:51Z
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excuse me
(DIR) Post #9qqEywHkL9RTwBpA12 by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-01-09T15:56:23Z
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this is what Sting is always singing about, correct
(DIR) Post #9tYiw1FfgWqgOKMjHU by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-03-31T06:27:01Z
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Forget if I posted this here! 10 BP and the really good longform essay stephen wrote about it and I edited is PWYW until my sweetheart's birthday https://itch.io/s/29323/free-cards
(DIR) Post #9uAgrkpnypdKXsFSDY by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-04-18T07:32:39Z
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Part of it was probably being raised in an evangelical American environment and part of it is probably just being temperamentally predisposed to anxiety but I have always thought of my life in terms of waiting for some disaster/catastrophe/Armageddon that it would just pathetically expire in. Now, being separated from my partner in the midst of a pandemic is making me sit with these thoughts for weeks at a time and honestly attempt to work through them
(DIR) Post #9uAgrqHHk5aNQY8yFE by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-04-18T07:36:29Z
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Despite everything, I have to start thinking of my life as long and resilient, because once I finalize this move back (and it will happen!!) it's fairly open ended what I decide to do for the first time in years. I have to start committing to living my life like, well, a life, rather than chunks of a few years at a time that are cut off from each other
(DIR) Post #9wqnMvdB9Nq8kcXamu by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-07-07T18:06:45Z
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Perverse incentives of copyright/ip law is one of my ~special interests~ I guess and honestly imo small scale creators who are worried about citation/crediting and payment should try to disentangle those demands from appealing to copyright as it exists because it does not really in practice protect those things and its consequences for cultural expression are much more of a chilling effect overall.
(DIR) Post #9wqpSrMO8r8x9Qdw4O by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-07-07T18:24:40Z
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I wrote like... a fantasy of US Copyright reform that is radical but not quite utopian and the broader consequences it would ideally have internationally and for arts funding: https://emreed.net/Speculation_2020.htmlAdditionally this about who tends to have access to "originality" and "creative remixing" within current IP norms: https://emreed.net/flappyrevenge.htmlMy partner wrote this about how free culture spaces are still/even more important as it becomes harder to be a "professional" x y z: https://myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/620358240432160768/thats-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-some-fuckAnd this is really cool historical research that touches on how, especially re: digital formats, "piracy" is often a norm that arrives in a country via empire: http://gamestudies.org/2002/articles/jo
(DIR) Post #9wqueB9nNSNFVRyBJA by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-07-07T19:28:45Z
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And none of this is to say that current "free culture" positions are above critique or a fully fleshed out alternative currently, this review by Laura Murray of one of the main "free culture" documentaries identifies a lot of the movement's blind spots and shortcomings: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=109064031101121064027012066068098076099057086000017035067090099103113023091104005100056057025002110121052126019108084089117026022073038044032013108024071065079019028064079096096020065019094071028107098027001120126083103089127024072119022075084076004&EXT=pdf
(DIR) Post #9xqDjSurfuuWdOFJVA by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-08-06T09:12:26Z
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I wrote about it! Videogames, arts funding... why I have hope it could be good but it's currently pretty bad, etc https://emreed.net/VGArtsFunding.html
(DIR) Post #9ztdUb3Xnbgwj5B7T6 by coleoptera@cybre.space
2020-10-06T10:56:57Z
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I've been asked to make an .iso of a DVD I have that is rare and long out of print, but it's tripping up my usual iso tool because it's copy protected, I think. What's the standard tool for getting around this? It's a DVD from circa 2008
(DIR) Post #A7L6lwmqv6fj8ka95c by coleoptera@cybre.space
2021-05-17T11:51:47Z
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Deciding to respect myself this week by not applying to any jobs that ask me to demonstrate "personality" or "enthusiasm" in the application process.
(DIR) Post #A8wWk4rt4ZDh2JJeiW by coleoptera@cybre.space
2021-07-04T10:59:18Z
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Glad I live in Scotland because the emotional and psychological benefits of having a lazy Sunday with the windows cracked for a gentle breeze and the sound of rain outside cannot be overstated
(DIR) Post #AKOKQau6JNvMQRWsNc by coleoptera@cybre.space
2021-01-21T14:39:25Z
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Finally put this up publicly on twitter so I'll post it again here.Here's my new experiment in distributing writing: If you've written anything about DIY, small games, or anti-capitalist tech and transform it into a .pdf booklet, I'll print it and distribute it at cost for you through Plaintext Distro at online zine fairs https://plaintextdistro.neocities.org/This is not (currently) a profit-making endeavor, to be clear. I don't want people putting themselves out too much to make new work. It's very old-school zine economics in that it's about the satisfaction of your work being out there in a different format and maybe breaking even.If that's fine with you, especially if you already have work you distribute for free digitally and want to try something different with, then let me know!! I will do my best to be able to offer any submissions I get thru mid-March at the Glasgow Zine Festival in April.🎉