Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Playing the past
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SPOILER WARNING: If you are enrolled in CAMS 3212, I recommend that you read this post after the course is over. I want to see if I can get ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Operation KTHMA: Day 1
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( KTHMA means "possession," and it's a word that turns out to be very important in the course. I'm going to try to avoid ...
Monday, August 17, 2009
CAMS 3212 Greek historical writings as Operation KTHMA--first RPC ever?
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One of the directions the Main Quest of this blog will eventually go is into Herodotus and Thucydides, who I believe were playing games they...
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...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Loading the cave-culture-game: Plato puts down the controller
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The last post was an attempt to outline the scope of this series of posts about Plato’s cave and video games. In this post, I want to make t...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Dangerous Immersion
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This post takes us from homeric epic to a key moment of its reception in classical Athens, Plato. In it, I begin mini-series about Plato’s ...
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