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Two Moments of Go

It’s already been eight years since Lee Sedol and AlphaGo had their historic five Go matches in Seoul, 2016. By now widely considered an iconic moment of contemporary culture, this game, marked by many portentous moments, carries the epos of a new technical and cultural moment. Sixty-two years …

In Media Res, Once More.

The use of the in media res literary device is as old as narrative. There are obvious practical and ontological bases for this. Unless we are talking about the big-bang or the theoretical beginning of things, we are mostly constrained to place a story somewhere with a narrative frame. Art has, of …

Todays Players

There is a cultural tension around video games that remains to be resolved. The problem goes beyond the adhesion or aversion that we feel for this medium that, without a doubt, has changed how we conceive of the cultural industry and its scope within the woven social network. The issue has to do …