Digital jungle

Academic research on video games is a risky business.

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A woman tries to understand

Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

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Question

If there are other dimensions, where are they?

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Ridiculous over preachy

R. A. MacAvoy on poetry and song:

I don’t think that, prior to the wide use of the printing press, there was any distinction between poetry and song. It was only when a person could buy an edition of someone’s poems, and read them – not knowing at all how the writer had meant them to sound aloud – that a branch of poetry that consisted of interesting mind pictures could exist.

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