I have two newish academic publications that you might want to check out if you’re the kind of person who enjoys academic publications. The first is a piece about speculation and video game pla...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2018/11/05/two-recent-publications-of-mine-about-games/
I. I’ve been reading At The Existentialist Café a chapter at a time for a couple months now. It’s a weird way to read a book but, you know, things get in the way when you’re writing a di...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2018/06/19/on-at-the-existentialist-cafe/
“He adored both cards and roulette, often playing at several table simultaneously, displaying the committed masochism of Dostoevsky, who claimed that the real thrill of involvement only began w...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2018/01/15/francis-bacons-gambling/
Hard to excerpt without spoilers, but Carolyn Petit wrote a piece about Blade Runner 2049 and her own experiences that’s worth reading. I always enjoy a piece of writing that takes the wax an...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2017/10/17/carolyn-petit-on-blade-runner-2049/
The mature science fiction author doesn’t merely tell a story about Brick Malloy vs The Giant Yeastmen from Gethsemane. He makes a statement through a story. What is the statement? Himself, his...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2017/05/22/alfred-bester-on-what-a-science-fiction-author-does/
I’m planning on writing about Melancholia in the near future, and a short fact-finding mission to get a lay of the land of the scholarship on the film turned into something quite different (and...
Tales from the Yawning Portal rides the line between nostalgia and ease of access for new players. I can imagine sitting down with Danni, my Mages & Murderdads cohost, and replaying “The Sunles...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2017/05/09/on-the-yawning-portal-at-paste/
I’ve just finished watching Free Fire, the newest film from director Ben Wheatley (and Amy Jump who he cowrote and coedited it with), and while it’s very late I have some thoughts I want to ...
Christopher Sharrett – “‘Fairy Tales for the Apocalypse’: Wes Craven on the Horror of Film,” 1985.
https://thiscageisworms.com/2017/04/25/the-horror-of-life-itself-wes-craven-on-his-films/
Just wanted to crosspost two pieces I wrote that were published today: I wrote a short essay on the game Everything and what I think it does as a game (and how it is in conversation with the crea...
https://thiscageisworms.com/2017/04/20/weedopia-and-everything/