Teaching Resources
All are welcome to download the following essays on videogame culture and other topics, listed from oldest to newest. These have been published elsewhere, but are provided in standalone format for your convenience.
Essays
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as Neoliberal Allegory (2009)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Vladimir Putin (2014)
The Videogame Commons Remakes the Transnational Studio (2014)
4A's Metro Exodus: Ukraine's First Sci-Fi Blockbuster (2019)
Itsuno's Devil May Cry 5: Renovation With Style (2019)
Game-workers of the World, Unite: Night In The Woods and the Post-2013 Revolution in Interactive Media (2019)
China's 1.4 Billion Citizens Versus the Plutoklatura (2019)
Max Payne as Anti-Capitalist Insurrection (2019)
Frogware's The Sinking City: Raising Cthulhu (2019)
Geopolitics of Brexit (2020)
Cthulhumerica: Post-Hegemonic Decline and the Semi-peripheralization of the United States of America (2020)
The Return of the Obra Dinn as Transnational Procedural (2020)
Dreaming of R'lyeh: US Revanchism from Trumpism to Plutofascism (2020)
A Masterpiece of Fragments: Blade Runner as Neo-slave Narrative
(2021)
It Takes a Global Village to Overthrow the Plutocracy: Resident Evil 8 (2021)
Little Misfortune as Fairy-tale of the 8 Billion (2021)
The Constitutional Empire as Past and Present (2021)
Timelines
World Aesthetics of the Hapsburg Hegemony 1492-1648
World Aesthetics of the Dutch-French Hegemony 1648-1775
World Aesthetics of the Second Supercycle 1775-1815
World Aesthetics of Global Cotton 1815-1860
World Aesthetics of Global Steam 1860-1914
World Aesthetics of the Third Supercycle 1914-1945
World Aesthetics of the Global Plan 1945-1973
World Aesthetics of the Global Minotaur 1973-2008
World Aesthetics of Exponential World 2008-2032
All are welcome to download the following essays on videogame culture and other topics, listed from oldest to newest. These have been published elsewhere, but are provided in standalone format for your convenience.
Essays
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as Neoliberal Allegory (2009)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Vladimir Putin (2014)
The Videogame Commons Remakes the Transnational Studio (2014)
4A's Metro Exodus: Ukraine's First Sci-Fi Blockbuster (2019)
Itsuno's Devil May Cry 5: Renovation With Style (2019)
Game-workers of the World, Unite: Night In The Woods and the Post-2013 Revolution in Interactive Media (2019)
China's 1.4 Billion Citizens Versus the Plutoklatura (2019)
Max Payne as Anti-Capitalist Insurrection (2019)
Frogware's The Sinking City: Raising Cthulhu (2019)
Geopolitics of Brexit (2020)
Cthulhumerica: Post-Hegemonic Decline and the Semi-peripheralization of the United States of America (2020)
The Return of the Obra Dinn as Transnational Procedural (2020)
Dreaming of R'lyeh: US Revanchism from Trumpism to Plutofascism (2020)
A Masterpiece of Fragments: Blade Runner as Neo-slave Narrative
(2021)
It Takes a Global Village to Overthrow the Plutocracy: Resident Evil 8 (2021)
Little Misfortune as Fairy-tale of the 8 Billion (2021)
The Constitutional Empire as Past and Present (2021)
Timelines
World Aesthetics of the Hapsburg Hegemony 1492-1648
World Aesthetics of the Dutch-French Hegemony 1648-1775
World Aesthetics of the Second Supercycle 1775-1815
World Aesthetics of Global Cotton 1815-1860
World Aesthetics of Global Steam 1860-1914
World Aesthetics of the Third Supercycle 1914-1945
World Aesthetics of the Global Plan 1945-1973
World Aesthetics of the Global Minotaur 1973-2008
World Aesthetics of Exponential World 2008-2032