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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live… (more) ” ― William W. PurkeyThis isn’t about the unfair treatment of professionals who dare to voice unconventional ideas. We won’t discuss here the specifics of ugly incidents making the rounds online lately. Comments that stray into that turf will be deleted. This post is about what it’s about: considering a compelling and somewhat riling idea. If, by considering it this way, I seem to be endorsing this notion, then good.
Gameplaywright - Story + Games
Sample Reality - a blog about new media, literature and various
Second and Columbia in Seattle, c. July 1914 This is a comprehensive list of digital humanities sessions scheduled for the 2012 Modern Language Association Conference in Seattle, Washington. The 2012 list stands at 58 sessions, up from 44 last year (and 27 the year before). If the trend continues, within the decade it will no longer make sense to compile this list; it’ll be easier to list the sessions that don’t in some way relate in to the influence and impact of digital materials and tools upon language, literary, textual, and media studies. It’s possible I may have missed a session or two; if so, let me know in the comments and I’ll add the panel to the list.
From the 8-bit aesthetic of the novel’s cover (or at least the promotional copy) to a mention of Family Ties, Dead Man’s Party, and Galaga within the first 25 pages, “Fanboys” director Ernie Cline’s first novel is like a love letter to adolescent male geek culture of the 1980s or, more simply put, to me. It is destined to become the not-so-guilty pop-rocks and Pepsi reading of the end of the summer and will no doubt inspire rhapsodic talks at academic conferences and nostalgia-fests on message boards. The premise is simple: in 2044, James Halliday, the gazillionaire creator of an online virtual world called Oasis,has died, but his last will and testament video has presented the real world with a hunt for the keys to his fortune. Inspired by the Easter Egg in Atari’s Adventure , and the structure of that game, he has hidden 3 keys to 3 gates.
Writer Response Theory - a blog and podcast dedicated to discuss
It’s easy to get lost in the noise. When people think of a Network they think of a series of nodes, a tool for people to work together. They don’t think about what’s in-between. The truth is that the data makes its own lines of force. People whiz back and forth, minds artificial and human pass through the network and they never realize: the data is in the noise.
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Mason's MFA Fiction Program Unoffical Blog
Once a year, writers gather in large numbers. They migrate from all over the country. Some travel internationally. Poets, novelists, nonfiction writers - the participants come from different genres. Some are established authors with numerous publications. Others are emerging.