December 2011
11 posts
The Curse of Cow Clicker →
It’s a Facebook game called Cow Clicker, and it’s unlike anything Bogost ever made before, a borderline-evil piece of work that was intended to embody the worst aspects of the modern gaming industry. He meant Cow Clicker to be a satire with a short shelf life. Instead, it enslaved him and many of its players for much of the past 18 months. Even Bogost can’t decide whether it represents his...
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“13. A classic is a work which relegates the noise of the present to a background...”
– Italo Calvino, Why read the classics?
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Your own weapons against you
I’m not pretending that this subject is of any import, but this one stung, this first defeat in FIFA12 to a human opponent. (This post might just be a ruse to link to a bunch of Jonathan Wilson and Michael Cox analysis.)
The winning tactic was one of my own design, or, I should say, I was the one who transcribed it from a hybrid of Bielsa/Guardiola real-life strategy to something that...
Slavoj Žižek reviews ‘Václav Havel’ by John Keane... →
The Leader in fact is like the Lady in courtly love poetry – cold, distanced, inhuman. Both the Leninist and the Stalinist Leader are thoroughly alienated, but in opposite ways: the Leninist Leader displays radical self-instrumentalisation on behalf of the Revolution, while in the case of the Stalinist Leader, the ‘real person’ is treated as an appendix to the fetishised and celebrated public...
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Things I wish I had been told growing up:
Never over-tighten a compression fitting
Finish pasta in the sauce
Get a tailor
Own long underwear; wool is best, silk almost as good
Wrinkle-free fabrics look terrible and still need to be ironed
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OH LOOK, THE MEDIA OVERHYPED SOMETHING. →