TITLE | DATE | SUMMARY |
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This War of Mine: Friction, Frustration, and the Myth of the Eternal Battlefield in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint | 13 September 2022 | An exploration of the military eschatology of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. |
The Long, Long Dark: On suicide, survival games, and going on and on and on and on | 04 May 2021 | An essay about suicide, masquerading as an essay about Hinterland Studio's The Long Dark, masquerading as an essay about survival games. |
The Way of Nature: On Ghost of Tsushima, and the manufactured sublime | 23 July 2020 | Examines the role of the natural landscape and sublime as cinematic subject in Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima, and the cynicism of the game's focus on an aesthetics of consumption rather than contemplation. |
An Assassin's Creed: An examination of violence as ideology across Ubisoft’s major franchises | 12 May 2020 | An examination of cylical and historical violence as a recurring ideology across several of Ubisoft's major franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Watch Dogs, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. |
The Maiden Inviolate: Apophasis and virginity in Ælfric's Life of St. Eugenia | 24 April 2019 | A negotiation of sexual and transcendent identity via apophasis in the abstinent/ascetic figues of Ælfric's Life of St. Eugenia. Examines the relationship between the soul and holiness, as understood through the sanctity (and enduring inviolability) of the virginal body. |
Something That is Loved: The ghosts of Toni Morrison’s Beloved | 27 December 2017 | Examines the role of ghosts and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved through a psychoanalytical approach, focusing on traumatic resonance in both individual and cultural memory. |
Mirror's Edge, and the Politics of Parkour | 3 June 2016 | Examines parkour as a tool of liberation and resistance within the Modernist tradition through Mirror's Edge (2008). |
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