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Where Interests Take You
I’ve been thinking about how the longer I go from spending time on social media, the more wide open my media diet is becoming.
Myth-Making Mechanisms in Autonomous Worlds
My talk on the design of ‘Myth-Making Mechanisms in Autonomous Worlds’ is one of the best talks I’ve given to date on Worlds Theory.
Last Laptop
Part of me thinks that this might be my *last* laptop. Or at least the last one priced under the logic of late capitalism.
Tears of the Kingdom | 2318
I fully expect to see Succession get more words published about it in online media outlets in the coming weeks than the new Zelda will.
Dial M for Metaverse | 2317
Both Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks & phone tree menu systems are progeny of the explosion of creativity that happened after D&D arrived
Lore as Lens | 2313
The growing importance of lore reflects the rise of a new kind cultural sense-making and social technology.
Wind-up Worlds
Wind-up Worlds, Web3, World Running and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow Social experiences.
Other Acts
My band played its first gig on Friday at one of Leo Food’s Supper Clubs.
Reconstitution
I really don’t know what the fuck is going on, nor am I pretending to know. The completeness of crisis is too big to understand.
Rooms As UX Metaphor | 2045
The Interactive Fiction metaphor of ‘rooms’ as applied to chat room UX.
Beyond The Last Ad Break | 2039
Television News has no memory beyond the last ad break. Updates on what I’ve got going on, and how a healthier media diet might be a good idea right now
Craving Canon (Redux) | 2014
Further explorations on ‘canon’. Protestantism, Atheist Boomers, Aliens 3, Frozen, Jesus Fan Fiction and the great 1054 Christian Rage Quit.
Living In A Time Of History | 2010
The Pandemic is coming… The longue durée, paying taxes after pestilence, boomers, ancient greeks, make art when the time ghost is at the door.
We Are Just At That Point In The Timeline | 1937
It’s just Us, Capital and the Fash. Written the day after Labours election defeat of 2019, reality, and Brexit.
Ritual and Storytelling | 1926
Our ancestors would struggle to see mythology as separate from ritual.
Spider-Man’s MCU No Deal Webxit | 1921
Cultural Fracking and fandom being dispossessed of their stories by private interests.
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