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Critical
Simulation
Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.
Anti-Negroponte: Cybernetic Subjectivity in Digital Being and
Time
Timothy Luke reviews Nicholas Negroponte and takes a second look at 'digital subjectivity.'
Phoebe
Sengers responds
Phoebe Sengers praises the optimistic, self-aware conversation mapped by Warren Sack and First Person.
Natalie Jeremijenko responds in turn
Natalie Jeremijenko asserts that machine speech should re-awaken us to "the peculiar structure of participation that we take for granted."
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Preliminary Poetics
The builder of Façade, an "interactive story world," Michael Mateas offers both a poetics and a neo-Aristotelian project (for interactive drama and games).
Michael Mateas responds in turn
Narrativists vs. ludologists, material vs. formal constraints: Michael Mateas replies by identifying actors' roles in each division.