Monthly Archives: September 2014

Rhetoric & Gaming: 6.1 Project 2 Proposal

In today’s class I want your groups to produce a project proposal. The following should be a google doc that is shared with me. The proposal should include the following elements: Group Names Project Description: medium, a 2-3 sentence summation … Continue reading

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New Media Production / Week 5

MEmorials First, I want to let Michelle present her MEmorial. Shipka Second, I want to spend time thinking about Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole. I got the page numbers wrong in the homework section last week (I meant for … Continue reading

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Rhetoric & Gaming 5.1: Race and Gaming, Tricky Terms

This week I wanted to open our discussion of race and gaming by explicating out a few important binary terms. This is my response to Factual Feminist’s response to Sarkeesian’s video, in which I flush out a bit of what … Continue reading

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New Media Production / Week 4

Mea Culpa // Cyberduck Deepest apologies for the FileZilla mishap. Sourceforge used to be a reputable site, and FileZilla used to be a respected project. I failed to do my due diligence here and I apologize. Apparently, Cyberduck is still … Continue reading

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Rhetoric & Gaming / Week 4 / Class 2: Project Day

Quickie: SuperBetter I’ve gotten a few email questions asking “what should I be doing with SuperBetter?” My quick answer here is: us it. If you go through the introductory process, then you have already selected or articulated a personal problem … Continue reading

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New Media Production Week 3

Today we will be working on three things: FTP file transfer Ulmer Assignments An Introduction to CSS Setting Up an FTP Connection with BlueHost FTP (file transfer protocol) is a program/application that allows you to connect to a web server. … Continue reading

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R&G Week 3 / Class Two / Critical and Revolutionary Art

Today’s plan: Play this: Darfur is Dying Watch this: The McDonald’s Game and Persuasive Games Baraka, the Revolutionary Theater, and Games and/as Critique For my final answer to the question “what is art?” I want to discuss art that overtly … Continue reading

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R&G Week 3 Class One / Dali and Surrealism

Reaching Back to Thursday To revisit something: “it’s just about football.” Yes and no. I think this gets at the difference between “plot” and “theme.” When I approach a show from an aesthetic perspective, I am often looking to interrogate … Continue reading

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New Media Production Week 2

Things to do: Apologize for Blue Host charging for a three year commitment (that is not a commitment) up front Talk about working on the web and .zip files Have people attempt to .zip and send me their MEmorial assignment … Continue reading

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R&G Week 2 / Class 2: Art and Identification, Ethos and Nationalism

Today I want to: Play This!: Bad Paper Talk about Tolstoy Talk about art, nationalism, ethos, and identification (and its ugly counterpart, “orientalism”) Set up SuperBetter Tolstoy For our last class, I asked you to read excerpts from Tolstoy’s 1896 … Continue reading

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