what strikes me about ai music is how it reproduces a particular style of mainstream engineering/production. not surprising since i’m sure most folks don’t recognize that part of the artistic equation, but i’m still frustrated that music is decomposed into genre/lyric/instrumentation only

eerie how close our lists are, though blue jay way is my #1 and i really like the anthology version of tomorrow never knows

Neither am I—only our books are.

I'll also add, somewhat immodestly, that I'm on some next-level bullshit with my class slides.

I'm using this design to illustrate how Bogost structures the book, i.e., bookending individual examples of game criticism with an opening and closing argument about what game criticism is (and could be).

Ten years on, it's also a nice snapshot of what games were in conversation at the time.

A big part of this class is teaching students how to read and analyze difficult texts, whether they be academic papers or magazine images or YouTube videos. But I'm also trying to *demonstrate* the production of arguments using those same media, especially the medium of graphic design via slides.

Evocative posing, detailed line work, great colors. Really nice work!

we can and should be candid about what it means if someone says that they want to accumulate and centralize (and therefore validate or invalidate) the entire world in the form of data. what does that kind of central authority describe? on its face we're describing systems of authoritarian nature.