Showing posts with label Bioshock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bioshock. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2011

Epic choices, and the lack thereof

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This is a republication of a post from playthepast.org, which in turn was a drastically re-written version of a post that appeared on this b...
Monday, July 26, 2010

That Bioshock is tragedy

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The distinction between epic and tragedy seems very clear to us. Even if we lay aside the definitions those words carry in everyday English ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Let's all go to Rapture!

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The Video Games and Human Values Initiative (VGHVI) has weekly multiplayer nights, usually on Thursdays. This week, I'm hosting a simult...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Andrew Ryan, shadow-puppet master

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I think it’s now probably time to tackle Bioshock . My chapter on ethical education in the cave and in games, featuring the same reading of ...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Plato's new console: dialogue and mimesis

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Even as Plato condemns the cave-culture-game, he expects the philosophical reader to understand that they (Plato and the reader together) ar...
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Notes from the Spice Mines of Kessel

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Apologies for the darkness of Living Epic over the past few weeks. As you’ll gather from the notes below, I’ve been busy not just with my or...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Who’s the author of a video game? (In response to comments on my post “On the profundity of Halo and Bioshock” (4))

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You can find the comments appended here . It seems like a good idea to attempt to summarize individually and then respond individually to wh...
Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Are choice and interactivity enemies? (In response to comments on my post “On the profundity of Halo and Bioshock” (3))

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You can find the comments appended here . It seems like a good idea to attempt to summarize individually and then respond individually to wh...
Monday, June 30, 2008

Was I wrong to praise mainstream, console games? (In response to comments on my post “On the profundity of Halo and Bioshock” (1))

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You can find the comments appended here . It seems like a good idea to attempt to summarize individually and then respond individually to wh...
Friday, June 20, 2008

The profundity of Halo and Bioshock (and the Iliad)

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This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...