I’m gonna call it CAN STAR WARS DO THIS? home movies
GUYS, IT’S REAL
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huge shout out to @standard.bsky.social for creating this and the Venture Bros and KotH ones, absolutely phenomenal!!!!
Wondering what is going on in those Backrooms trailers? Some thought on the creepypasta, the web series, the film, and the emerging aesthetic of Institutional Gothic via @mitpress.bsky.social
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You’ll only be able to find my opinions about bone temples and their various audiovisual ephemera in Exploits. Subscribe today!
Next up at #scms26 is L10, a fantastic looking roundtable on Institutions of Game Histories with @lainenooney.bsky.social, @noahspringer.com, Jeremy Saucier, and special guest @aarontram.bsky.social, moderated by @liebenwalde.bsky.social. Should be a great conversation!
On a more self-promotional note, stop by session L10 at 2:15 on Saturday and you can hear me and host of other brilliant folks talk about the various important institutions of Game Histories. It’s going to be a blast!
And the signing starts!
And, as always, I don’t want to take any of these books home. If you come by on Saturday, you can put your name in a book and walk away with it for free on Sunday!
MIT Press booth at SCMS last year
Surprise surprise, @mitpress.bsky.social is back for #SCMS26, and we’re bringing the books and the signings!
Panel E1 at #scms2026: Sorry I didn't live-post this!
Really amazing conversation about game history. I'm going to post some notes to self about some big take-aways.
Two hours to go! Come get your books signed. 6:15, session E1 in the Regal room
Program page for SCMS panel on magazines at 2:15 today in the Crystal Ballroom.
Hey #SCMS26 - think magazine research is boring? Then you clearly haven’t met my panel. 2:15 today … it will get messy.
I’m not at #PaxEast but a ton of books I’ve published are. Stop by the @mitpress.bsky.social booth and pick some up!
But wait, there’s more! While there, you can also get a signed copy of Carlin Wing’s new history of how things Bounce!
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Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”
If you are at #SCMS26 you should come get a free signed copy of my new book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET. Counterculture icon @rusirius.bsky.social endorses that reading it is like tripping on robitussin! (This is probably not true.)
And, as always, I don’t want to take any of these books home. If you come by on Saturday, you can put your name in a book and walk away with it for free on Sunday!
On a more self-promotional note, stop by session L10 at 2:15 on Saturday and you can hear me and host of other brilliant folks talk about the various important institutions of Game Histories. It’s going to be a blast!
We’ll also have a whole host of other awesome books, including Jennifer Holt’s Cloud Policy, winner of this year’s Katherine Singer Kovács award!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254806...
We have more than game histories though. Stop by the MIT Press booth at 1pm on Friday and @shirachess.bsky.social will sign a copy of her new book, The Unseen Internet, that traces the history of the occult and the internet!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...
But wait, there’s more! While there, you can also get a signed copy of Carlin Wing’s new history of how things Bounce!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321...
First off, stop by session E1 on Thursday evening for the roundtable on writing Game History, and you can pick up a signed copy of Raiford Guins’s new book, King Pong!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205133...
MIT Press booth at SCMS last year
Surprise surprise, @mitpress.bsky.social is back for #SCMS26, and we’re bringing the books and the signings!
A copy of Hot Connections by Jenny Sundén, Susanna Paasonen, and Katrin Tiidenberg. The cover features abstract waves in bright red and deep purple gradients.
In “Hot Connections,” Jenny Sundén, Susanna Paasonen, and Katrin Tiidenberg rethink “the social” in social media. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205206...
Wait, you’re telling me Cliff wrote the notes?
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.
Been a sec since we've run one of these threads: Hey there, we're Unwinnable! We've been publishing 100% independent pop culture criticism since 2010.
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Oliver Stone is one of the worst directors of all time to have acquired any sort of status. His best movies are a 6/10 at best, and all of his work has unforgivable flaws
Friends! On Friday March 13th, at 14:00, the Center for Digital Play is hosting a talk by Victor Navarro-Remesal, on The Making of Zen and Slow Games.
You can read more about the talk here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/victor...
The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked.
We just didn't have a plan for what came next.
Stream and subscribe my conversation with @shirachess.bsky.social:
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