Video Game Academia
Course Objectives
Making friends and saving the world through academic discourse about video games.
Schedule
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Readings
From Caedmon to The Wire: World Pictures and the Play of Language
We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is? To try to answer these questions…
A Conversation with Otto Lehto on Video Games and Human Progress
Alex and I had a lovely chat with his friend and fellow scholar Otto this afternoon, out now on audio and video: Please check it out! If all goes well, we’ll be discussing FFVII Remake, spoilers and all, in an upcoming ep. Otto’s site: https://www.ottolehto.com/ His 2009 piece “The Collapse and Reconstitution of the Cinematic…
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