books
Alien Phenomenology
or What It's Like to Be a Thing
A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another.
How to Do Things with Videogames
A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation.
Newsgames
Journalism at Play
A book about the history and future of games in journalism. Co-authored with Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer.
Racing the Beam
The Atari Video Computer System
An accessible book about the Atari VCS as a platform. Co-authored with Nick Montfort.
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games
Persuasive Games
The game studio I co-founded. We make games about social and political issues.
Cow Clicker
A Facebook Game about Facebook Games
A Slow Year
A chapbook of game poems for Atari VCS, PC, and Mac
Water Cooler Games
Videogames with an Agenda - website archive
Guru Meditation
A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone
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writing
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January 19, 2012
What is a Game Bundle?
From my Persuasive Games column at Gamasutra
September 14, 2011
Seeing Things
Video and transcript of my talk at the Third Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium
August 2, 2011
From Aberrance to Aesthetics
On diversity in games. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
August 1, 2011
Why Debates About Video Games Aren't Really About Video Games
May 3, 2011
Exploitationware
On the rhetoric of gamification. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.
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teaching
Historical Approaches to Digital Media
Graduate Seminar, Georgia Tech, Spring 2012
The Philosophy of Sport
Seminar and Studio, Fall 2011
Atari Hacks, Remakes, and Demakes
Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis, Spring 2010
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blog
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January 24, 2012
On Technical Agency and Procedural Rhetoric
A quick response to Joshua McVeigh-Schulz
January 18, 2012
Help Feed the Speculative Realism Feed
Seeking updates for the SR blog aggregator
January 11, 2012
This is a Blog Post about the Digital Humanities
A response to Stanley Fish, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, and others
January 8, 2012
Robert Jackson's DSCOOOO1.jpg Project
At the O-Zone Journal
January 5, 2012
Airplane Explanations
Some notes from in-flight
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photography
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speaking
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