Hugh Davies
@hughdavies.bsky.social
Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
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Hugh Davies
@hughdavies.bsky.social
· Jan 10
My 2024 paper interrogating the intersection of AI, future forecasting, and games is now freely available online. "this paper reveals and critiques the unannounced spiritual mysticism surrounding contemporary AI and its increasing embrace within late-capitalist future forecasting". bit.ly/4h9JLLH
First as Simpsons, then as farce.
damn, not again
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
First as Simpsons, then as farce.
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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
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lazy devs
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
lazy devs
I am intensely proud of my wife Yoko who has just had her book published! Next Wednesday, Yoko will be book signing at Kinokuniya in Sydney. Please book a seat and come along if you are in town. tinyurl.com/bdfxrs9z
September 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I am intensely proud of my wife Yoko who has just had her book published! Next Wednesday, Yoko will be book signing at Kinokuniya in Sydney. Please book a seat and come along if you are in town. tinyurl.com/bdfxrs9z
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The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.
Crank it! 😀 🎸
Crank it! 😀 🎸
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.
Crank it! 😀 🎸
Crank it! 😀 🎸
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Bendigo Writers Fest confirms that 59% of speakers withdrew.
What an own goal.
I hope those responsible for trying to silence writers are feeling good about themselves. Wrecked an important cultural institution.
What an own goal.
I hope those responsible for trying to silence writers are feeling good about themselves. Wrecked an important cultural institution.
August 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Bendigo Writers Fest confirms that 59% of speakers withdrew.
What an own goal.
I hope those responsible for trying to silence writers are feeling good about themselves. Wrecked an important cultural institution.
What an own goal.
I hope those responsible for trying to silence writers are feeling good about themselves. Wrecked an important cultural institution.
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Tel Aviv Anti-War Riots
Riot police - most without identification tags and some masked - violently attack protesters and beat them, while their colleagues shield the actions with their bodies and stand in a ready-to-attack position
Riot police - most without identification tags and some masked - violently attack protesters and beat them, while their colleagues shield the actions with their bodies and stand in a ready-to-attack position
August 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tel Aviv Anti-War Riots
Riot police - most without identification tags and some masked - violently attack protesters and beat them, while their colleagues shield the actions with their bodies and stand in a ready-to-attack position
Riot police - most without identification tags and some masked - violently attack protesters and beat them, while their colleagues shield the actions with their bodies and stand in a ready-to-attack position
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so so excited that we were able to excerpt Seth Harp's incredible new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, which was one of the most jaw-dropping reading experiences I've had this year. www.wired.com/story/the-fo...
The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus
Seth Harp’s new book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” goes deep into the forming of the Joint Special Operations Command and its origins in the aftermath of 9/11.
www.wired.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
so so excited that we were able to excerpt Seth Harp's incredible new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, which was one of the most jaw-dropping reading experiences I've had this year. www.wired.com/story/the-fo...
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If you have plans to attend the Bendigo writers festival as a speaker or participant, now would be a good time to loudly withdraw
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Writers festival requires ‘complete self-censorship’ over Gaza war, academic claims, as speakers withdraw in protest
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah among those to boycott Bendigo writers festival, arguing she cannot appear ‘as a Palestinian’ due to speaker code
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If you have plans to attend the Bendigo writers festival as a speaker or participant, now would be a good time to loudly withdraw
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Yeah, here’s a piece by @alexmckinnon.bsky.social: www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...
Authors withdraw from Bendigo Writers Festival over anti-Palestinian 'censorship'
Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel
www.deepcutnews.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Yeah, here’s a piece by @alexmckinnon.bsky.social: www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...
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Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply
August 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply
This weekend as part of the IndieCade Festival, I will be discussing Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the Age of “Alternative Facts” with Michael Andersen and Celia Pearce. The event is online and in US/European time. www.indiecade.com/playablethea...
Playable Theatre Symposium – IndieCade
www.indiecade.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This weekend as part of the IndieCade Festival, I will be discussing Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the Age of “Alternative Facts” with Michael Andersen and Celia Pearce. The event is online and in US/European time. www.indiecade.com/playablethea...
Outstanding words by Ge Zhang on Sino-Sinopessimism madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Zhexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, ima...
madeinchinajournal.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Outstanding words by Ge Zhang on Sino-Sinopessimism madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...
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Israel doesn’t want anyone to see this aerial photo.
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Israel doesn’t want anyone to see this aerial photo.
Deadline extended! Following popular demand, we have extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the Video Games in Museums event in Shanghai this November. New deadline is August 12th. chinesedigra.org/934-2/
August 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Deadline extended! Following popular demand, we have extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the Video Games in Museums event in Shanghai this November. New deadline is August 12th. chinesedigra.org/934-2/
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July 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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"At the start of the rainy season, I climbed the stairs to the balcony, drenched, and saw a woman wearing a floral dress on the balcony amidst the heavy rain"
that's what Arka describing while clouded his thoughts in Our Monsoon Balcony by Rakoratsu (Indonesia)
that's what Arka describing while clouded his thoughts in Our Monsoon Balcony by Rakoratsu (Indonesia)
April 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"At the start of the rainy season, I climbed the stairs to the balcony, drenched, and saw a woman wearing a floral dress on the balcony amidst the heavy rain"
that's what Arka describing while clouded his thoughts in Our Monsoon Balcony by Rakoratsu (Indonesia)
that's what Arka describing while clouded his thoughts in Our Monsoon Balcony by Rakoratsu (Indonesia)
New full length paper presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Korea.
Unearthing ancient genealogies of QR code design, this paper examines how these operational images can be read technologically , culturally, and prognostically.
Unearthing ancient genealogies of QR code design, this paper examines how these operational images can be read technologically , culturally, and prognostically.
June 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
New full length paper presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Korea.
Unearthing ancient genealogies of QR code design, this paper examines how these operational images can be read technologically , culturally, and prognostically.
Unearthing ancient genealogies of QR code design, this paper examines how these operational images can be read technologically , culturally, and prognostically.
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Can’t shake the thought that having all this matériel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law.
Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬
Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬
NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade.
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
They departed Texas 5 days ago.
What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.
(🎥 DW)
June 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Can’t shake the thought that having all this matériel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law.
Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬
Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬
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Assassin's Creed and other games are using historians to get their facts right, and a new study shows it's fostering an interest in history (via ABC News)...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Meet the historians making sure video games get their facts right
A new study has found that players who engage in historic games like Assassin's Creed or Age of Empires are driven to keep learning after they put down the controller. So historians are stepping up.
www.abc.net.au
June 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Assassin's Creed and other games are using historians to get their facts right, and a new study shows it's fostering an interest in history (via ABC News)...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Woof, what a thing to find in a book you're about to start reading (Stanislaw Lem's Solaris)
June 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Woof, what a thing to find in a book you're about to start reading (Stanislaw Lem's Solaris)
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Today, children are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity.
We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen.
Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.
We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen.
Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Today, children are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity.
We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen.
Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.
We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen.
Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.
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