Technological politics and the networked PC However, the best illustration of the kind of positive cultural politics envisaged here concerns the culture of game modification. Games players write and exchange ‘mods’—modifications to games programs that include new twists of storyline … Continue reading →
Original, authentic, copy: Conceptual issues in digital texts For textual studies, digital texts present special problems and magnify others. Three examples will suffice. The first is a result of their ease of reproduction, alteration, corruption, and transmission, much greater than … Continue reading →
Finally I introduced the subcategory ↵excerpts to the category ↵literature within this blog. That’s something I intended from the start on, but never did till now. Over time I realized that, maybe because of vanity, this blog more and more … Continue reading →
AP carries a story on gamemodding with a more than positive conclusion: “Still, Lombardi said, mods like Counter-Strike show that anyone with the skills can make it big in the gaming industry. ‘They are the guys that are going to … Continue reading →