http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk Just another Titania weblog Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:45:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After trying to apply this typology to the game Dark Castle, Aarseth concludess that “Andersen’s typology of computer-based signs is both too elastic and too arbitrary to be really useful.” Furthermore, he decides that one cannot determine a computer semiology based entirely on what has been represented on the screen ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/fashionable-noise-learning-the-algorithm/ Pierre Bourdieu makes an impassioned critique of scholasticism – which he nonetheless acknowledges as the bearer of “unique fruits” – in his recent book Pascalian Meditations, in which he takes skepticism to its philosophical limit: a critique of the entire industry of “objectivity.” He takes particular aim at the institution ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/fashionable-noise-beyond-scholasticism/ Because CPs has no creation narrative – programs essentially have written their works even before you compile them (unless they are playing on live texts, such as the internet) – it is up to the digital poet to animate this “attractor” by simulating the sensation of the poem’s having been ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/fashionable-noise-reading-as-parsing/ A last remark by Sontag is suggestive of the aesthetic, even spiritual, power that CPs possess, when she writes that pornography points to something more general than even sexual damage. I mean the traumatic failure of modern capitalist society to provide authentic outlets for the perennial human flair for high-temperature visionary ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/fashionable-noise-the-pornographic-imagination/ Because the demon instinctually creates works of pure noise (even the most artistic demon can do this with the switch of a few variables), it occupies the extreme pole of the “asocial.” That is, were the aesthetic products of the demon taken as human production, they would most likely ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/fashionable-noise-the-banality-of-the-demon/ To write a piece that can be read several different ways – none predetermined by the “author” – which will provide distinctive reading experiences each time. To emply "algorithm" as the agent of writing, the holiest of holies being with a database that is not generated as a willed piece ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/five-holy-grails-of-electronic-literature/ French sociologist Roger Caillois, in his book Les jeux et les hommes (Games and Men), defined a game as an activity that must have the following characteristics: fun: the activity is chosen for its light-hearted character separate: it is circumscribed in time and place uncertain: the outcome of the activity is unforeseeable non-productive governed by ... http://titania.stockton.edu/languageasgameplaytalk/2008/01/22/what-is-a-game/