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BEING-IN-THE-GAME
This is a small python-coded game I made in an attempt to simulate Heideggerian “thrownness” in a virtual setting, with the player acting as Dasein. I know, right?
Clicking the picture leads to my redundant and inelegant code on the CodeSkulptor platform. To play the game, click the green skeuomorphic triangle symbol at the top left.
links
my academic home
where I learned how to do this stuff
Great all-around anthropology blog where I wrote "What is Cultural Anthropology?"
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
where you can read my article Policing the Fluff: The Social Construction of Scientistic Selves in Otherkin Facebook Groups
where you can read my article The Social Production of Internet Space: Affordance, Programming, and Virtuality
where you can read my article Wandering in the City: Time, Memory, and Experience in Digital Game Space
Anthropological Quarterly (AQ)
where you can read my review of Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble
and also my review of Computer Games and the Social Imaginary, by Graeme Kirkpatrick
Ilana Gershon's media and linguistic anth blog, where I took the page 99 test
a reading/synopsis blog I keep for my own use (or yours?)
my former job as Director of Media and Publications
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis Journal
where you can read my article Bytes of Passage: Video Game Inhabitation as Ritual
more of me—briefly
even more of me—academically
still more of me—uselessly
Writing About Video Games class blog
The American Road Trip class blog
the sites for two writing classes I taught at GWU
videos
Home Computer Terminal - 1967
1999 A.D. - 1967
Tandy Computers - 1977
GTE Hospital System - 1978
What is the Internet? - 1994
AOL commercial - 1995
MCI Commercial - 1997
The Kid's Guide to the Internet - 1997
Cisco—The Human Network - 2006
The Machine is Us/ing Us - 2007
Tron trailer - 1982
The Lawnmower Man trailer - 1992
Hackers trailer - 1995
Recent media Appearances
Lot's of stuff about tradwives!
I was interviewed Scottie Andrew at CNN for the story, “Queer and trans homesteaders are conquering the social media frontier”
I was interviewed by Noemi Lopez at Newtral (Spanish) for the story, “This is how the 'tradwife' discourse has infiltrated feminist motherhood”
I was interviewed by Bárbara Blum at Folha de S.Paulo for the story, "Understand the 'tradwife' wave of beautiful, modest, and
housewifely right-wing influencers”
I was interviewed by Kristina Kljajic at BBC Serbian for the story, “Traditional Wives: How
I was interviewed by Mensje Melchior for Psychologie Magazine (Dutch) for the story “Cooking, caring, obeying your husband: Do tradwives seriously want to go back to the1950s?”
I was interviewed by Emma Curvers for De Volkskrant (also Dutch) for their cover story “The Modern Tradwife is Anti-Woke Anti-Feminist, and Anti-Career"
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