video games
Sim Capital: General Intellect, World Market, Species Being, and the Video Game
Nick Dyer-Witheford figures the place of video games in the global market, drawing on Marx's "species being" for scratch paper.
Patched In: A Conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner about Computer Gaming Culture
An essay by Tara McPherson (and a conversation with Anne-Marie Schleiner) concerning patch mutations, opensorcery, and other explainable gaming offshoots.
The Digital Downside: Moving from Craft to Factory Production in Online Learning
Tim Luke takes on the business of online learning.
Eskelinen responds in turn
Eskelinen can't be bothered to answer his critics.
Representation, Enaction, and the Ethics of Simulation
Do violent games train us for violence? Drawing on social psychology and cognitive science, Simon Penny examines the "ethics of simulation."