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...Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator The act of writing this book helps the author crawl out of devastation as a grieving mother. Psychoanalytic methods of observation enable the practice of agentic attunement, a process the author identifies to conceptualize...

... Tyler Okonma (the Creator) eroticism/erotic Georges Bataille Bacchus joy ...

... This roundtable opens part 2 of the collection, “Playable Bodies,” by following the first section of theoretical framing with a focus on queered experiences of bodies in video games, game making, and the processes of manufacture. The roundtable features the game makers Naomi Clark (creator...

... Highlighting Tyler, the Creator, this chapter considers ways in which the erotic becomes a means by which to deny any effort to linguistically distinguish the dynamics of death and life. Read in relationship to Georges Bataille and Bacchus (the Greek god of sensuality), Tyler, the Creator...

... of games centered on geopolitical and racialized frictions, especially in local acts of protest and community-building. It features Mike Ren Yi (creator of Yellowface ), Melos Han-Tani (creator of All Our Asias ), Yuxin Gao (creator of Out for Delivery ), and Pamela Punzalan (creator of Asian...

... gaming cultures. It features the designers Robert Yang (creator of Radiator 2 ), Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky, creator of Dominique Pamplemousse ), Rachel Li (creator of Hot Pot for One ), and Marina Ayano Kittaka (cocreator of Even the Ocean ). These thinkers reflect on games as opportunities...

... This chapter tracks an interactive news magazine program called The Compass , which contained a broadcast component and a simultaneous internet live stream on the Japanese streaming site NicoNico. It explains how the idealistic hopes of its creators for a more democratic and dynamic news...

... This chapter considers indie rock culture's ritualization of mix taping. It argues that the indie mix tape tapped into an emerging understanding of popular music as a communicative resource whose creators made their feelings available to be deployed on listeners' behalf. In contrast to use...

... This chapter features D. Soyini Madison’s interview with Cuban Hustle creator Cedric Brown. Madison and Brown discuss the political implications of the play’s depictions of black gay male sexuality and U.S.-Cuban relations. Brown ultimately asserts that the play is a metaphor...

... This chapter contains Tavia Nyong’o’s interview with Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love creator Pamela Booker. Booker discusses her engagement with theater as a form and her desire to interrogate the way in which love is staged. Finally, Nyong’o and Booker meditate on the political...

... This chapter features Vershawn Ashanti Young’s interview with Berserker creator Paul Outlaw. Outlaw discusses the connections between berserkers, American history, and his personal history, race, gender, and sexuality. Young and Outlaw then discuss the composition of the play and Outlaw’s...

...Consuming <italic>Deathlife</italic> Highlighting Tyler, the Creator, this chapter considers ways in which the erotic becomes a means by which to deny any effort to linguistically distinguish the dynamics of death and life. Read in relationship to Georges Bataille and Bacchus (the Greek god...

... This chapter features Jossianna Arroyo’s interview with Ah mén creator Javier Cardona. In the first part of the interview, Cardona details his creative process, explaining how he conceived Ah mén . Cardona then shares his potential interests and investments in applying the term “queer” to his...

... In this chapter, John Keene interviews Dancin’ the Down Low creator Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. McCune discusses his intellectual and artistic trajectory and asserts that his performance work is a form of activism. He contends, for example, that DL men being blamed for the rise of new cases of HIV...

... and political impacts of games centered on geopolitical and racialized frictions, especially in local acts of protest and community-building. It features Mike Ren Yi (creator of Yellowface ), Melos Han-Tani (creator of All Our Asias ), Yuxin Gao (creator of Out for Delivery ), and Pamela Punzalan (creator...

... Clark (creator of Consentacle), Sisi Jiang (creator of LIONKILLER ), Domini Gee (creator of Camera Anima), and Toby Do (creator of Grass Mud Horse), who discuss racial representation in games from the perspective of the North American industry, noting how pernicious racist stereotypes of Asians...

... In this chapter, Bernadette Marie Calafell interviews Strange Fruit creator E. Patrick Johnson. Johnson opens the interview by sharing that he wanted Strange Fruit to be an homage to the women in his family and black feminists, to whom he credits his own awakening about gender and sexuality...

... conventions of games and dominant gaming cultures. It features the designers Robert Yang (creator of Radiator 2 ), Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky, creator of Dominique Pamplemousse ), Rachel Li (creator of Hot Pot for One ), and Marina Ayano Kittaka (cocreator of Even the Ocean ). These thinkers reflect...