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By Glenn Solvang, 24 October, 2017

Meditations on the Blip: a review

Author
Lisette Gonzales
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
URL
Meditations on the Blip: a review
Appears in
Critical Ecologies
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
gonzales
lisette gonzales
fuller
matt fuller
matthew fuller
natural selection
mongrel
public sphere
software
corporat
Microsoft
dada
surrealism
lettrism
situationist
Matta-Clark
open source
Proprietary
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Abstract (in English)

Lisette Gonzales reviews a book of essays by Matthew Fuller that examines the way we are programmed by software.

Critical Writing referenced
Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software
By Andre Lund, 26 September, 2017

Cyberdrama

Author
Pat Harrigan
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
URL
Cyberdrama
Platform/Software
HTML
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
cyberdrama
Janet Murray
hamlet on the holodeck
computers as theatre
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Aristotle
game
aristotelian
ken perlin
zork
myst
everquest
the sims
michael mateas
narrative
story
Abstract (in English)

Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce Cyberdrama, the first section of First Person.

By Andre Lund, 26 September, 2017

A Preliminary Poetics

Author
Michael Mateas
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
espen aarseth
Aristotle
Markku Eskelinen
gonzalo frasca
raine koskimaa
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robert mckee
Janet Murray
don norman
AI
artificial intelligence
interactive drama
drama
MUD
moo
everquest
ultima online
the sims
will wright
agency
na
Abstract (in English)

The builder of Façade, an “interactive story world,” Michael Mateas offers both a poetics and a neo-Aristotelian project (for interactive drama and games).

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