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Reading the L.A. Landscape
Claire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.
The Puppet Master Problem: Design for Real-World, Mission-Based Gaming
Jane McGonigal argues that pervasive games - which involve electronic and 'real world' missions - reverse the traditional conception of the power dynamics of gaming, which has understood gamers as free agents. In contrast, according to McGonigal, designers of pervasive games exercise power over players, though their control is ultimately compromised by players' interpretive agency.
Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and The Poverty of Humanism
Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry's The New Ecological Order.
Of Graphomania, Confession, and the Writing Self
Todd E. Napolitano on the kitsch of on-line journals, most of which have flashed and disappeared since they were panned here, in the Fall 1996 ebr.