Author: bretkhart

I really enjoyed our conversation on Deleuze's "Postscript." While I've read the piece a few times before, what struck me reading it, perhaps due to our emphasis on economic history and neoliberalism, is how much of it is dedicated to describing the technologies, media, and mechanisms through which the logic of individualism in all areas … Continue reading cumulative control societies

I’ve read Maus a number of times, but never thought to read more from Art Spiegelman. I was not expecting his next project to be a meticulously created 9/11 comic. He begins by explaining in an introductory essay why he decided to return to comics, over a decade after Maus was published in full. Mostly … Continue reading following spiegelman’s fragments, some fragments on spiegelman

Following from our conversation last class on teaching a lecture-based game studies course, I have been thinking about teaching some of the game-related readings we've done. Here are some thoughts on pairings and framings. Malsky - Casual and mobile games are a fruitful entry-point for engaging with and including a broader audience in the classroom, … Continue reading thoughts on a games course based on some things we’ve read