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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
Fully open source academic press, what the future of scholarly publishing will look like, and the home of my book, Human* Being
super big publisher where you can spend way too much money on my book,The Spectrum of Virtuality
also super big publishing company where you can get my edited volume: Practicing Digital Ethnography
interdisciplinary journal where you can find my co-authored piece, Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare
niche disciplinary journal where you can find my article, Replacement Anxieties
late, great all-around anthropology blog where I wrote "What is Cultural Anthropology?"
where you can read my article The #Tradwife Persona and the Rise of Radicalized White Domesticity
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
where I learned how to do this stuff
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
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, but also increasing interest in the therian community...
I was interviewed on the Busted podcast:
I was interviewed by Aldric Meeschaert at Le Figaro (French) for the article “They call themselves wolves, cats, or foxes: a look into the world of "therians," young people who don't feel entirely human”
I was interviewed Paméla Rougerie at La Parisien (French) for the article “The urge to bite, nibble, howl: who are the therians, these people who identify with animals at the heart of a moral panic?"
I was Interviewed by Mirong Chen at Chinese Social Sciences Today (Chinese) for the article "Revisiting the Field: Digital Ethnography’s Continuities with and Adaptations of Tradition"
I was Interviewed by Monica Petrucci at Forbes for the article “The Tradwife Economy: How a Viral Creator Trend Reshaped the Home & Kitchen Industry”
I was interviewed Scottie Andrew at CNN for the story, “Queer and trans homesteaders are conquering the social media frontier”
I was Interviewed by Lola Buscemi at L’ADN (French) for the article “Tradwives: Nara Smith and Ballerina Farm, Queens of a Trendy Retro-Patriarchy”
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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