Jeremy Antley
@jantley.bsky.social
🇷🇺History PhD / Game Studies / Wargames / Left-Handed
🗺️Portland, OR
📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
🗺️Portland, OR
📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
Played my first game of Deadball with my 5 year-old son and his Shark Stars hit a walk-off 3-run home run (hello, Bobby Witt Jr.!) against my Zebra Mussels. We ran with just the basic rules this first go-around but it was a great first experience. Excited to play again!
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Played my first game of Deadball with my 5 year-old son and his Shark Stars hit a walk-off 3-run home run (hello, Bobby Witt Jr.!) against my Zebra Mussels. We ran with just the basic rules this first go-around but it was a great first experience. Excited to play again!
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
1) Loves instant speed shenanigans
2) Is all about the value
3) Can transform into an absolute beater
4) Trample
August 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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
1) Loves instant speed shenanigans
2) Is all about the value
3) Can transform into an absolute beater
4) Trample
Thought this was a pretty good reason…
August 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thought this was a pretty good reason…
Let’s see…what do we have here…
*clicking noises on a mechanical keyboard*
Enhance.
*whirring noises ensue*
Enhance.
*shuffle noise as image shifts*
Stop.
Oh yeah, that’s the jam.
*clicking noises on a mechanical keyboard*
Enhance.
*whirring noises ensue*
Enhance.
*shuffle noise as image shifts*
Stop.
Oh yeah, that’s the jam.
August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Let’s see…what do we have here…
*clicking noises on a mechanical keyboard*
Enhance.
*whirring noises ensue*
Enhance.
*shuffle noise as image shifts*
Stop.
Oh yeah, that’s the jam.
*clicking noises on a mechanical keyboard*
Enhance.
*whirring noises ensue*
Enhance.
*shuffle noise as image shifts*
Stop.
Oh yeah, that’s the jam.
Philipp von Hilgers, in his book, War Games, makes an argument that the 17th century saw, in the German states, development of games as ‘epistemic reservoirs’ (particularly with the work of Leibniz). They were material artifacts that could reveal universality of cultural techniques of knowledge.
July 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Philipp von Hilgers, in his book, War Games, makes an argument that the 17th century saw, in the German states, development of games as ‘epistemic reservoirs’ (particularly with the work of Leibniz). They were material artifacts that could reveal universality of cultural techniques of knowledge.
Also, cover illustrations for games in the 17th century were on point!
July 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Also, cover illustrations for games in the 17th century were on point!
I’ve had Philipp von Hilgers’ *War Games* in ebook form for over a decade now and finally took the plunge to buy a hardback copy. This book put me firmly down the path of wanting to dive deeper into analog games, of investigating how they produce knowledge and create new player subjectivities.
July 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I’ve had Philipp von Hilgers’ *War Games* in ebook form for over a decade now and finally took the plunge to buy a hardback copy. This book put me firmly down the path of wanting to dive deeper into analog games, of investigating how they produce knowledge and create new player subjectivities.
I talk a lot about Rancière and Lazzarato and both these thinkers deeply influence how I think about subjectivity. But, for me, you can’t discuss subjectivity without understanding mimesis and of three names—René Girard, Elin Diamond, and James S. Hans—it is Hans that has been most influential.
July 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I talk a lot about Rancière and Lazzarato and both these thinkers deeply influence how I think about subjectivity. But, for me, you can’t discuss subjectivity without understanding mimesis and of three names—René Girard, Elin Diamond, and James S. Hans—it is Hans that has been most influential.
You know it’s a good book when the thick-stock index cards come out.
June 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
You know it’s a good book when the thick-stock index cards come out.
Lazzarato often critiques Foucault’s discussion of neoliberalism, as found in *The Birth of Biopolitics*, for his failure to adequately grasp the true nature of capitalism’s linkages to war and, particularly, the war on populations. But he does praise Foucault’s 1982 essay, ‘The Subject and Power.’
June 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Lazzarato often critiques Foucault’s discussion of neoliberalism, as found in *The Birth of Biopolitics*, for his failure to adequately grasp the true nature of capitalism’s linkages to war and, particularly, the war on populations. But he does praise Foucault’s 1982 essay, ‘The Subject and Power.’
New Lazzarato arrived in the mail today. Right up there with Rancière with my favorite current writer/thinker of our contemporary period.
June 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
New Lazzarato arrived in the mail today. Right up there with Rancière with my favorite current writer/thinker of our contemporary period.
Bit of an impulse buy from @dukepress.bsky.social but how can anyone resist a book that is, in part, about “Ottoman debt and finance” — certainly not this guy! www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic...
June 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Bit of an impulse buy from @dukepress.bsky.social but how can anyone resist a book that is, in part, about “Ottoman debt and finance” — certainly not this guy! www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic...
I only buy boosters on prerelease day for new Magic sets, so of course I had to buy some Final Fantasy boosters. Pulled one of the case mythics, Vivi, a character from one of my favorite games in the series, FF IX.
June 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I only buy boosters on prerelease day for new Magic sets, so of course I had to buy some Final Fantasy boosters. Pulled one of the case mythics, Vivi, a character from one of my favorite games in the series, FF IX.
Here is billy woods performing ‘checkpoints’ which is one of my favorite tracks off of Hiding Places.
June 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Here is billy woods performing ‘checkpoints’ which is one of my favorite tracks off of Hiding Places.
Went to see billy woods last night at Mississippi Studios. Fantastic show! Performed several cuts from his latest album and also other tracks from Hiding Places and Aethiopes. Felt pretty lucky to see one of the premier hip hop performers of our day.
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Went to see billy woods last night at Mississippi Studios. Fantastic show! Performed several cuts from his latest album and also other tracks from Hiding Places and Aethiopes. Felt pretty lucky to see one of the premier hip hop performers of our day.
I’m on a quest to collect wargames about the Golan Heights portion of the larger 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Just received a copy of SPI’s 1975 ‘Golan’. This is the ‘Collector’s Edition’ that came in a box because the game was also offered as a ‘folio’ edition that came in a ziplock bag.
May 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I’m on a quest to collect wargames about the Golan Heights portion of the larger 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Just received a copy of SPI’s 1975 ‘Golan’. This is the ‘Collector’s Edition’ that came in a box because the game was also offered as a ‘folio’ edition that came in a ziplock bag.
If you would have told me five years ago that the Royals would not only have dominant pitching but also a growing reputation for developing pitching, I absolutely would not have believed you. And yet here they are!
May 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you would have told me five years ago that the Royals would not only have dominant pitching but also a growing reputation for developing pitching, I absolutely would not have believed you. And yet here they are!
Rally the Horde is in general but even more so in my Phabine Commander deck; sometimes you get just a few tokens, sometimes you get a lot, and sometimes you deck yourself, ha.
March 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Rally the Horde is in general but even more so in my Phabine Commander deck; sometimes you get just a few tokens, sometimes you get a lot, and sometimes you deck yourself, ha.
Scanning the shelves at Watson Library in grad school is what led me to Georges Lefebvre’s *Great Fear of 1789*, a book that had tremendous impact on my own thinking about peasant use of information networks. Without that book, my whole intellectual orientation would be radically different.
February 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Scanning the shelves at Watson Library in grad school is what led me to Georges Lefebvre’s *Great Fear of 1789*, a book that had tremendous impact on my own thinking about peasant use of information networks. Without that book, my whole intellectual orientation would be radically different.
In a parallel with Rancière, I’ve inadvertently become a Lazzarato completionist. I enjoy his work, even if I don’t agree with every point or his disagreements with Rancière. I think their works are complementary in many respects; the sensible articulation of new subjectivities.
February 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In a parallel with Rancière, I’ve inadvertently become a Lazzarato completionist. I enjoy his work, even if I don’t agree with every point or his disagreements with Rancière. I think their works are complementary in many respects; the sensible articulation of new subjectivities.
*grabs marker, scribbles ‘and fascism’ next to capitalism*
February 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
*grabs marker, scribbles ‘and fascism’ next to capitalism*
Me, listening to Shelved By Genre
February 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Me, listening to Shelved By Genre
At this point, I’m firmly down the path of becoming a Rancière completionist. Read the introduction and I can tell, no surprise, this book is going to extremely be my jam.
February 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
At this point, I’m firmly down the path of becoming a Rancière completionist. Read the introduction and I can tell, no surprise, this book is going to extremely be my jam.