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Alien Phenomenology
or What It's Like to Be a Thing
A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another.
How to Do Things with Videogames
A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation.
Newsgames
Journalism at Play
A book about the history and future of games in journalism. Co-authored with Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer.
Racing the Beam
The Atari Video Computer System
An accessible book about the Atari VCS as a platform. Co-authored with Nick Montfort.
more books...
games
Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.
Cow Clicker
A Facebook Game about Facebook Games
A Slow Year
A chapbook of game poems for Atari VCS, PC, and Mac
Water Cooler Games
Videogames with an Agenda - website archive
Guru Meditation
A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone
more games...
writing
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January 30, 2012
The Bulldog and the Pegasus
January 19, 2012
What is a Game Bundle?
From my Persuasive Games column at Gamasutra
October 10, 2011
Frequent Flight
An essay on flying for AirplaneReading.org
September 14, 2011
Seeing Things
Video and transcript of my talk at the Third Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium
August 2, 2011
From Aberrance to Aesthetics
On diversity in games. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
more writing...
teaching
Historical Approaches to Digital Media
Graduate Seminar, Georgia Tech, Spring 2012
The Philosophy of Sport
Seminar and Studio, Fall 2011
Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes
Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis, Spring 2010
more teaching...
blog
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February 8, 2012
Making Books
It's not the same as writing books
February 2, 2012
Academic Professional Job Opening
Work with me at Georgia Tech Digital Media
January 31, 2012
Slashdot Q&A
January 28, 2012
Speculative Realism Aggregator Update
New blogs, optimized, mobile version, etc.
January 24, 2012
On Technical Agency and Procedural Rhetoric
A quick response to Joshua McVeigh-Schulz
more blogishness...
photography
more photography...
speaking
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Next: February 24, 2012
Newsgames Lecture and Workshop
at NPR Marketplace
more speaking...