Trying to discover a little bit more about ethics and the nature of malevolence in MMORPGs, I rolled a new Horde character: Badflower. I’ve made it to level 8, and this much is clear: In Warcraft, there are the Good, the “bad,” and the silly. WoW’s two factions are the Alliance and the Horde: Your [...] Read more – ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Silly’.
In The Handbook of Inaesthetics, Alain Badiou assembles ten “Theses on Theater,” which, at first glance anyway, offer game studies some compelling parallels. Indeed, he begins generously, furnishing us with the very link that we require. The purpose of the theses? “To establish—as we must for every art—that theater thinks” (72; emphasis mine). In a [...] Read more – ‘Badiou and Theatre’.
