...Rob Wilkie Video games have become a significant aspect of the technology industry, yet they have also become for many the image of an emerging contradiction said to reside at the heart of digital capitalism, namely that capitalism is no longer based upon the exploitation of workers' labor...

... such as video games develop the mind the way reading once did. Johnson simply replaces the relationship between' a book and a brain with more recent technological tools—the new "books" are primarily video games, television shows, and the Internet. Although twentieth-century educators argue...

... and generality of all their relations and abilities” (Marx 1986, 99). My essay, “Gaming Labor: Class, Video Games, and the ‘Gen- eral Intellect addresses the fact that video games have become, not only a significant aspect of the technology industry but also, for many, the image of an emerging...

... to Heaven, an ode to eight-bit video- games, was released in 2014. Suzanne Roszak (née Hopcroft) is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of California, Irvine. Suzanne’s poetry is forthcoming or has appeared under her maiden name in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fourteen Hills, Phoebe, Poet...

... out of courthouses . . . [which] actually is enormously advantageous. It will help us create public records where, otherwise, we wouldn t have enough reporters to have them. But it can only go so far. There are real limitations on it. The video-game industry has focused on procedural content...

... in video games. The man I dated before Sam said that I had a bland face but a good body. Like a porn star, he said. He d graduated last year and moved to the mainland. I think he studied business at one of the grandes écoles. I d forgotten what he d told me, and didn t check Facebook much. So what are you...

... he saw me. “What might the plan be?” “Play video games, maybe,” I said. “And shoot some hoops probably.” “Perfect,” he said. “Useless and unproductive. The way sum- mer should be.” It wasn’t that I had anything better to do. My best friend and one-on-one opponent Alex Kim had...

... of the decline was in the proliferation of digital entertainment in the last ten years. The rise of video games, the internet, instant messaging, different kinds of email, downloading music, weblogs—these have pulled away from literary reading and book reading in general. The video game industry last year...

... to be the hosts of digital simulations that can be put to both therapeutic and viral use? Miller This is a huge topic that would require a book-length essay to deal with all adequately. We should always remember that literary works, like video games and the other genres of digital media, also give access...

... still rims the bottoms of her eyes. “You’re that poor dear with the lost cat, aren’t you?” She brushes her bangs out of her face. “Did you ever find her?” I peer inside her house, searching for a sign. Her children sit on the floor in front of the television, playing a disturbing video game...

... the shape of a Behind the Music episode: After decades of struggle and marginalization, professors of American literature by the mid-twentieth century achieved the institutional respect that we more or less enjoy today, at least until scholars of video games do to us what we did...

... on compact was acceptable, too. The Hondas and Toyotas looked like collapsed Coke cans. Each game of autopilot chicken also featured a stop-action frame frozen nanoseconds before impact. Voice-overs and yellow hand-drawn circles and arrows like NFL replays drew viewer attention...

... or two (as was the case in Toronto during the premiership of Mike Harris) laid bare some important dif- ferences around the social configuration of public space in Mexico and Canada. When I showed the UNAM students a video of the open- ing of a Tim Hortons coffee shop for Canadian soldiers...

... of the game. The drive down was more or less as bad as Paul had expected. The power was out in most places, which turned a lot of the small- town intersections into free-for-alls. But, fortunately, traffic was light. He crossed the causeway around ten o’clock. The gas station was dark, the roads...

... in particular, as a factor leading to 9-11. Each also tries to contextualize this within the history of the "Great Game" between Russia and Great Britain in the nineteenth century to dominate Central Asia. Unlike Chomsky, Ahmed and Brisard and Dasquie view Afghanistan...

... decided to call my buddy Kevin from HR. He’d been cyber-stalking his ex-girlfriend for over a year and was always game for a relationship autopsy. “Bipolar or ADHD,” said Kevin. “I didn’t want to say anything at the Christmas party but she seemed pretty damaged.” “Not a word, nothing...

... on a certain word or phrase and I’ll start to repeat it. When it happens, it’s like the record in my head gets scratched and I black out. The first time was when Ray, my ex-husband, took me to a White Sox game. I got stuck on “banner yet wave” during the national anthem, right...

... justified/y exploitation of people, animals, and nature. What using quantum understandings in this way lends itself to, I believe, is obstructing that whole game that was implemented explicitly for the purpose of white global exploita- tion through disidentifying in one of its own trusted buddies...

..., certainly not for medical reasons and maybe not ever, not even at your kid’s soccer game or your neighbors’ Fourth of July barbecue. Dr. Jerome has told me himself that his job is a surefire conversation halter at parties. He tells people what he does and they think, How can you do...