2. Suzanne de Castell questions the role that prefab
environments and worlds play in our off-world
explorations and the quality of our citizenship defined
there.
What do you think of her argument that “the real
somehow ‘gives substance’ to the virtual and the the
virtual transforms the real, materially and politically,
not just semantically”?
3. Do games make the player or does the
player make the game?
4. How are agency and autonomy
“re-engineered” and reformed through
important digital media like online games,
deserves more serious consideration than it’s
been getting in any contemporary DIY activism
agenda”? (de Castell 216)
5. Do you agree with de Castell that
cross-world mobility is gendered?
Second Life Avatar
6. What are some of the problems that arise with the use
of pre-fab worlds rather than maker culture aesthetics?
7. Cirque du Machinima Cuckoo Clock
Watch (3:07): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0GIPiX5Sk
8. Anita Sarkeesian’s
Damsel in Distress, Parts I & II
Watch to 3:09, Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=X6p5AZp7r_Q
14. The original BSG was accused of being a Star Wars rip-off, but
Star Wars was itself a pastiche of so many previous science
fiction experiences that the case was thrown out.
15. Humans are hardware-dependent and always at a
disadvantage when faced with the networked fluidity of
the software-enabled ‘toasters’
Human Hardware Cylon Software
28. THE RESISTANCE:
“MILITARY-JOURNALISM” MODELED ON “ACTUAL U.S.
MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS” (MCCUTCHEON
4).
“CALL IT ‘NATURALISTIC SCIENCE FICTION.’ THERE WOULD BE
NO TIME TRAVEL OR PARALLEL UNIVERSES OR CUTE ROBOT
DOGS. THERE WOULD NOT BE ‘PHOTON TORPEDOES’ BUT
INSTEAD NUCLEAR MISSILES, BECAUSE NUKES ARE REAL AND
THUS ARE FRIGHTENING”
(QTD MCCUTCHEON 4)
30. CANADA’S TOP SUPERMODEL
“By modeling the culture of an imagined
remainder of all humankind on that of the
contemporary U.S., the remake not only
lends critical urgency to its allegory but
also reproduces the universalising
tendancy of U.S. national ideology to
imagine itself (as that 80s charity single
put it) as ‘the world’” (McCutcheon 5).
31. Vehicles of the Military-Entertainment Complex:
Battlestar Galactica Vs Star Wars Vs Star Trek Vs Babylon 5
Watch 2:42: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnPG19npW8&feature=related
32. Lawrence Lessig on “How Creativity is
Being Strangled by the Law”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs&feature=fvwkrel