In other news, I'll be presenting a public lecture on spatial narrative in the Metroid series this Friday. The details are in the poster below: all are welcome!
My essay "Blasto Sacer: Mass Effect as an Allegorithm of Sovereign Exception" is now up on First Person Scholar. The idea for it came from a course I started teaching last year which deals with, among other things, Giorgio Agamben's work on the ancient Roman legal concept of the homo sacer. In short, the piece deals with the philosophical implications of giving government agents a "license to kill," and how the contradictions of sanctioned rule-breaking is reflected in video games that allow players similar agency. (It had originally been scheduled for publication last week, but had been bumped to make room for a reaction to the ongoing "gamergate" controversy.)
In other news, I'll be presenting a public lecture on spatial narrative in the Metroid series this Friday. The details are in the poster below: all are welcome!
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