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What did I read in 2012? I’ve found looking back at my last year in books helps me chart some themes and developments in my (mental life), so I’ve decided to do it again this year. I read 92 books in 2012, a little fewer than in 2011, but they were bigger books, and my page total ended up higher. This doesn’t count all the articles I’ve read, but we’ve got to draw the reading nerdage line somewhere. It’s all slightly arbitrary anyway. [...] 
Ein Gespenst geht um… Hauntology is one of those buzzwords that get thrown around in an attempt to put a finger on certain cultural trends. Deriving ultimately from Jacques Derrida, in reference to the opening sentence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto, the term nowadays is used to refer to the ‘ghosts’ haunting our culture; [...] 
Video games by their very nature often make interesting arguments on the things they portray. This struck me quite powerfully while playing a recent digitally distributed title called From Dust [wiki]. The game was designed by Éric Chahi and developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, and it essentially revolves around being a god and overseeing the fate [...] In my personal experience, the attacks of July 22nd by Anders Behring Breivik on Norwegian civilians are shaking the cultural and political discourse of the Western world. Some events simply leave an indelible mark on people, forcing them to confront a new reality, to re-evaluate their beliefs and political stances, and to think about the [...] Take a look, and think about it: There are several horrible questions that arise from this footage, some with obvious answers; to name a few: why was this footage not made public immediately? At least the US government would have prevented looking like they wanted to cover it up. Why does the killing that occurs [...] |
        
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