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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 3d

WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO SELLING OUT THE FIRST PRINT RUN OF THIS BOOK! Please continue to buy it and send it around. It is available on all store fronts you might want to purchase it at!

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 21d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

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David A. Banks @davidabanks.online · 9d

Feeling nostalgic for Real Life mag today. They let play with ideas like the "Joker theory of the administrative state: Capitalists sow chaos, without any particular plan for the “new normal” other than the ability to continually reassert their own dominance" reallifemag.com/wrong-road/

Wrong Road — Real Life

The phone is a car: a symbol of freedom and convenience that transforms into an inescapable burden

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12d

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 13d

I had a great time on Aftermath talking about how you can use Assassin’s Creed as a method of tracing the pathway to the world we live in.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13d

The Assassin’s Creed series was a canary in the coal mine for our modern, engagement-obsessed world. @ckunzelman.bsky.social explains:

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 15d

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

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Josh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 16d

Dolly rules and non parents probably won't know this, but she has a book club for little kids and she will just send them books for free. my kids have loved them. it's a good excuse to stop doing something and just hang out and read a book with them.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 17d

Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah I missed that they discussed this on their Bandcamp page on August 15th.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 20d

They released this album through a new label and that label does not do Bandcamp releases. I was bummed about this for sure. They have tried to get the label to change its policy but to no avail.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 20d

You turned me on to them and I’ve been pumped for every release since Monsters. Their live album is fantastic as well and I’m super jazzed to see the live next year when they come to Portland.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 22d

Umberto Eco once said, “the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.” @spice8rack.bsky.social’s video on Magic’s legally-distinct-from-Spider-Man set, Through the Omenpaths, shows how encoding these ‘fakes’ reveals their lack of depth youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo?...

Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 22d

Last year I wrote about the encoding/decoding issues designers now face in the present moment of Magic’s external IP-ization with heavy integration of Universes Beyond sets drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A... The ‘mimetic aesthetics’ employed in these ‘real/fake’ designs have far reaching implications.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 22d

Umberto Eco once said, “the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.” @spice8rack.bsky.social’s video on Magic’s legally-distinct-from-Spider-Man set, Through the Omenpaths, shows how encoding these ‘fakes’ reveals their lack of depth youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo?...

Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 22d

This month on Paper Labyrinths, nic and I talk with Sophie Abromowitz about writing for games like Hot Streak and Monikers, worldbuilding through system and gesture, and who the George Smiley of Bloodborne is. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

Paper Labyrinths: Sophie Abromowitz on Comedy & Mystery

We talk with Sophie Abromowitz about stage comedy, worldbuilding through systems, FROMSOFT games as detective stories, and the origin of the hot dog.   Follow Sophie on Instagram () and check ...

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 22d

Fantastic video! I was thinking about similar topics re: encoding/decoding of external cultural references in Magic in this essay I wrote about Clone and Haunted Screen—inspired in no small part by your Duskmourn video! drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

Decoding the Haunted Screen (Jeremy Antley).pdf

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 27d

I wrote an essay about this very idea last year with a reflection on the first card to capture my attention as a kid (Clone) and a card from Duskmourn that was a clone of a different sort (Haunted Screen) drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 28d

Ha, this was me last year with Bobby Witt Jr. vs. Aaron Judge.

Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 29d

Really special season for him for sure.

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · 29d

Post a duo.

Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · Sep 16

History is actively being replaced with lore.

Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's perfectly coherent to argue that taking down slave-owner statues is "destroying history" whilst erasing exhibits about the horrors of slavery isn't,- provided that history, to you, is a story to weaponise & not a process to understand.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Sep 12

Re-upping for the weekend crowd. I am exceptionally proud of this one, a sweeping story about ingenuity and failure, great ideas and stupid ones, with a cast that includes inventors, scoundrels, art collectors, actors, ad men, and legendary comic book artist Dave Cockrum.

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Aurora Plastics Corporation, later Aurora Products, was known for their slot cars and licensed model kits. But the publication of a board game would change everything.

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SKITTLE: the board game series that destroyed its publisher

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halloween kepburn 🎃 @hattie.meangirls.online · Sep 10

STALKER [1979; dir. Andrei Tarkovsky]

jam @socialistboat.dad · Apr 3

Hang on a minute. This "Zone" isn't "Cool" at all! It sucks!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Sep 4

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · Sep 4

Lower back tightness would help explain the command issues as of late, but you also have to wonder how long his back has been nagging him.

Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social · Aug 31

Unorthodox candidate: Slogurk. Here’s why:
1) Loves instant speed shenanigans
2) Is all about the value
3) Can transform into an absolute beater
4) Trample

Slogurk, the Overslime from Midnight Hunt.

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Legendary Creature — Ooze
Trample
Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on Slogurk.
Remove three +1/+1 counters from Slogurk: Return it to its owner’s hand.
When Slogurk leaves the battlefield, return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

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