Category Archives: semiotics

the gamer-scholar: mckenzie wark @ brown

mckenzie wark was at brown this morning, talking about his recent gamer theory project. for those who haven’t read it, gamer theory is a rather indirect assessment of what we might call the gamic experience. i mean this in the … Continue reading

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back to the future (of narrative) mit-edition

here is a story about stories; with a question about whether stories are still stories and whether we are beginning to live in a post-story age. the already cool mit media lab has founded a “center for future storytelling.” the … Continue reading

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towards a new aesthetics of information, the bestiario interface for berkman@10

echoes of my time at the berkman center for internet society continue to reverberate in my life, despite my distance from the sunny side streets of cambridge, and my re-enmeshment into life as a student at brown university. tomorrow (well … Continue reading

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