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Switched.com ran a story offering their assement of The Best Tech Writing of 2010, and my piece Cow Clicker: The Making of Obsession. I’m in good company, too: others in the top 15 include Zadie Smith, Malcolm Gladwell, William Gibson, Gary Kasparov, and the inimitable Onion. I’d never heard of Switched.com, but apparently it’s a reasonably popular AOL technology lifestyle… read more

I’m doing a whole crap-ton of things in Los Angeles the week after Thanksgiving. First I’ll be visiting Tracy Fullerton’s game design class at USC on Monday. Next I’ll be giving a talk on Newsgames at the USC Annenberg School, at noon on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday, I’ll be participating in a one-day event at UCLA, HELLO EVERYTHING: Speculative Realism… read more

Last week at the Society for Literature Science and the Arts conference, Katherine Behar organized two back-to-back panels on Object-Oriented Feminism (OOF). There were six papers total, and a response to each panel by Katherine Hayles and myself, respectively. To participants, Behar posed the question, “What would a program for Object-Oriented Feminism (OOF) entail?” The first panel attempted general responses,… read more

Cow Clicker is now officially a real Facebook game. How do I know? Because it’s been copied! Christian Primozich has created Fish Feeder, which takes Cow Clicker’s “innovative” cow clicking mechanics and applies them to the equally common social game genre of fish fondling. You can play it here. It’s… well, it’s Cow Clicker, but with fish. What did you… read more

Jesper Juul has been organizing videogame theory seminars at NYU. This week, I’m going to be participating in the sixth iteration of said series, “social games on trial.” Aki Järvinen will take the pro-social games position, and I will fill my court-ordered role as naysayer. The official announcement appears below. I should mention that I have a trick up my… read more

I’ve now had a chance to read three of the four papers from the RSA Object Oriented Rhetoric panel. Jim Brown’s summary is quite accurate, and I also recommend Nate’s thoughts on the potential of OOR. Here I’ll offer an overview of my reading of the papers, followed my my own sense of what object-oriented rhetoric might look like, or… read more

As Levi has revealed, he and I are putting together a book, Object-Oriented Ontology. It will carry both the proceedings of last week’s symposium, as well as new contributions from Katherine Behar, Melanie Doherty, Katherine Hayles, and Adrian Ivakhiv. We may add at least one more contribution as well, stay tuned. The collection will be published in the Open Humanities… read more

My colleague Liz Losh is organizing an event at UC Irvine next month in celebration of the opening of the Richard Rorty born-digital archives at that institution’s library. The event must have the best title in recent memory, “Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won’t.” The schedule looks great, with folks like Christine Borgman, Mark Wrathall, Iain Thompson, Steven Mailloux, and… read more

After an email conversation he and I had, Graham offers some thoughts on the best way to give talks. Here was my original off-the-cuff thought: One of the lessons Iâ??ve learned in the past five years is that there is no right way to give a talk. There are, however, right ways to give particular talks in particular circumstances. Unfortunately,… read more