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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

Elon Sociology & Anthropology

my academic home

 

GWU Anthropology

where I learned how to do this stuff

 

SAPIENS

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

 

Communication Theory

where you can read my article The Social Production of Internet Space: Affordance, Programming, and Virtuality

 

M/C Journal

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

 

CaMP Anthropology

 Ilana Gershon's media and linguistic anth blog, where I took the page 99 test

 

anthropolojamz

a reading/synopsis blog I keep for my own use (or yours?)

 

Westphalia Press

     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

 

About.me

more of me—briefly

 

Academia.edu

even more of me—academically

 

LinkdIn

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

what's up in anthropology

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SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

Introducing: Homegoings (Thu, 03 Oct 2024)
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Somatosphere

Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 8: From Controversy to Compensation: Cancer as an Occupational Disease (Thu, 05 Dec 2024)
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Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 7: Africanizing Oncology: Tales from the Uganda Cancer Institute (Thu, 28 Nov 2024)
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The Geek Anthropologist

Savannah Mandel Tells Us How to Go to Space (Mon, 29 Jul 2024)
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