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The Good, the Bad, and the Silly

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: [...]
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Badiou and Theatre

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 [...]
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