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Injured Sovereigns, Foucault, and Jessica Price
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10–16 minutes·
5 comments on Injured Sovereigns, Foucault, and Jessica PriceWhy does Jessica Price’s firing continue to attract so much attention? There’s plenty of other subjects I want to write about, but there is something about the story that draws me to it, just as it’s drawn literally thousands of people to my Twitter this blog, some of whom have called me “subhuman scum” and…
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: Quick Notes
Quick notes on this book by Jeanne E. Arnold, Anthony P. Graesch, Enzo Ragazzini, and Elinor Ochs, a popularisation of a 10-year study in which 32 middle-class Los Angeles families opened their doors to archaeologists and anthropologists to photograph, count, and classify every single visible object in their house. Introduction In general, it’s fascinating to look…
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Jessica Price Shouldn’t Have Been Fired
That’s the single, blindingly obvious conclusion I came to after reading the way in which Price, a game producer and writer for Guild Wars 2, was fired by her employer ArenaNet for some tweets in which they claimed she “attacked the community”. Peter Fries, a fellow writer, was also fired for defending her. Price had…
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The Cultures Ep 255: Despair is a sin, What do men think it means to be a man?
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 255 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: “Despair is a sin” What do men think it means to be a man? (plus the related Death, Sex, and Money ep) Note: No Naomi this ep
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The Cultures Ep 254: Avengers: Infinity War, Jurassic World 2, Scifoo 2018
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 254 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Avengers: Infinity War Westworld Jurassic World 2 has the exact same characters as Rampage Adrian went to Scifoo 2018 Note: No Andrea this ep
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Technology and the Virtues: Change Yourself, Change the Future
Why write about the future? I’ve never seriously tried to predict the future, a fool’s game if there ever was one. Most science fiction writers are perfectly aware of the contingent nature of the future, and prefer to think about how new technology, and the new abilities it affords us, might alter our lives and…
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The Cultures Ep 253: Queer Eye and Male Friendship, Good and Evil
Listen to episode 253 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Queer Eye and Male Friendship Good and Evil
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The Cultures Ep 252: Zelda BOTW’s Story, Get Paid to Write a Novel
Listen to episode 252 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s narrative mechanic, how it works and doesn’t work (hot take: 1.5 years too late!) Get paid to write a novel (sort of)
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The Cultures Ep 251: Gallup Careers Coaching, Not Following Politics, Gamify Everything
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 251 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Gallup careers coaching The experience of not following politics Gamify everything
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Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018 – ★★★
Better than my very low expectations. Decent soundtrack. Awful robot. Good, if criminally underused, Lando. Clearly meant to be the beginning of a trilogy that will never see the light of day. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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