The essence of being human is that we are always grasping towards the totality, yet we cannot comprehend the totality due our finite nature. Of us all, Fredric Jameson perhaps came closest.

Excited to share something new very soon. Stay tuned for October!

Oh look, I’ll be talking about peer review here!

Come see Jon Peterson Michael Witwer and I talk 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons this weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo! Dungeons & Dragons #dnd

Watching “$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)” so I know how to vote on Missouri Amendment 2

The cover is here! (Book coming December 10th.) mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549516/…

for the Los Angeles Review of Books, I wrote about Chaim Gingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️

Payal Arora shares lessons from the #GlobalSouth on designing #Inclusive #Tech, and conveys a message of #hope, #optimism and positive disruption as she discusses her new #book with Dr Waseem Akhtar on Bridging the Gaps #SciComm @3Lmantra The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bridgingthegaps.ie/2024/10/from-p…

Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)

pub alert! new book alert! dopeness alert! Adrienne Massanari's book is out frens! Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549417/…

"My things to care about are stretched too thin, like too many skits on a mediocre ’90s 'classic.'" Noah… tells us why he stopped focusing on hip hop in his column: unwinnable.com/2024/10/15/the…

The The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”

First sighting of Toy Theory in the wild!

Alright, we’re ready for day 2 of #AOIR2024 at the The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social booth, and we start the give away today. Stop by the booth, sign up for our mailing list, and walk away with a book tomorrow! Plus, you’ll be put in a raffle for @hegemonyrules new book, “Gaming Democracy”

Day 3 of #AoIR2024 … come get ya’lls books!

Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie" is out today in The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social's Platform Studies series. Get 30% off with discount code PUBDAY! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549509/…

Hallucinate This! makes a cameo in the new anthology of conputer generated text, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort out from MIT Press! @nickmofo The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. "Moral Codes" by Alan Blackwell is available now 👉 bit.ly/3XgxNJm #OA #OpenAccess #AI

TOMORROW! Repairing Play: A Playlist (w/ Aaron Trammell) Thurs. Nov. 14th, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Room 202 This talk will be a playful-joyus, yet also sorrowful and mournful-reading from Repairing Play juxtaposed against music from the book. RSVP Here: repairingplay.eventbrite.com