Dr Michael J. Maguire
@clevercelt.bsky.social
Irish writer and dissociate professor of that thing you don't know that much about.
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This is interesting: aeon.co/essays/why-d...?
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
aeon.co
May 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is interesting: aeon.co/essays/why-d...?
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There’s something poetic about milestone numbers, and Issue 25 of the fantastic "Digital America" online mag feels like that. I’m pretty goshdang happy that _Prog[W]res[tle]s_ was selected to feature in this 25th edition [+ having a Q+A published about the work + my artistic history].
_Prog[W]res[tle]s_ | Mez Breeze - Digital America
Mez Breeze’s interactive web piece, _Prog[W]res[tle]s_ [YEAR], explores themes of doom scrolling, political erosion, climate change, extremism, and gender-based objectification. Breeze creates AI-coll...
www.digitalamerica.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There’s something poetic about milestone numbers, and Issue 25 of the fantastic "Digital America" online mag feels like that. I’m pretty goshdang happy that _Prog[W]res[tle]s_ was selected to feature in this 25th edition [+ having a Q+A published about the work + my artistic history].
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It's out!
"Storyteller + digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The #Backrooms, a #foundfootage web series which is based on a popular #creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, Breeze confronts the feelings of alienation and predation inherent to late-stage capitalist society."
"Storyteller + digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The #Backrooms, a #foundfootage web series which is based on a popular #creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, Breeze confronts the feelings of alienation and predation inherent to late-stage capitalist society."
Lost in The Backrooms [or How I Learned to Love the Liminal]
Experimental storyteller and digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The Backrooms, a found footage web series which is based on a popular creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, B...
electronicbookreview.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It's out!
"Storyteller + digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The #Backrooms, a #foundfootage web series which is based on a popular #creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, Breeze confronts the feelings of alienation and predation inherent to late-stage capitalist society."
"Storyteller + digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The #Backrooms, a #foundfootage web series which is based on a popular #creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, Breeze confronts the feelings of alienation and predation inherent to late-stage capitalist society."
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A Call for contributions for our special issue to celebrate Joseph Tabbi’s work and career and 30 years of Electronic Book Review. Please consider sending us your works!
We are calling for scholarly essays, short contributions, reviews, images, remixes, and creative works of digital media for a special issue of @electronicbr.bsky.social engaging Joseph Tabbi’s works and career as a researcher, organizer, and digital publishing pioneer.
www.uib.no/en/cdn/17605...
www.uib.no/en/cdn/17605...
Call for contributions for special issue “Celebrating Joseph Tabbi and 30 Years of electronic book review”
Joseph Tabbi is the founder of electronic book review, which is now celebrating 30 years of continuous publication, making it one of the first scholarly open access journals on the web.
www.uib.no
February 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A Call for contributions for our special issue to celebrate Joseph Tabbi’s work and career and 30 years of Electronic Book Review. Please consider sending us your works!
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Artists, Activists, & Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future.
Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.
Free copy/ree PDF 🙂
bit.ly/42E4inM
Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.
Free copy/ree PDF 🙂
bit.ly/42E4inM
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Artists, Activists, & Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future.
Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.
Free copy/ree PDF 🙂
bit.ly/42E4inM
Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.
Free copy/ree PDF 🙂
bit.ly/42E4inM
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And so begins ELO's 25th anniversary year! Don't miss the summer conference in Toronto and Waterloo. Submit by Jan 5!
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
CFP: ELO25 @ 25: Toronto (July 11-13; due Jan. 5, 2025) – Electronic Literature Organization
eliterature.org
January 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And so begins ELO's 25th anniversary year! Don't miss the summer conference in Toronto and Waterloo. Submit by Jan 5!
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...
Some of the music I have been #writing to for the last year or so youtu.be/bMCiAKNUpTY?...
Ólafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle
YouTube video by Cercle
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Some of the music I have been #writing to for the last year or so youtu.be/bMCiAKNUpTY?...
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November 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Cúirt International Festival of Literature in #Galway is seeking to appoint a Festival Administrator and Marketing Officer for the 2025 festival. #JobFairy #LiteraryFestival
www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-is-hir...
www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-is-hir...
Cúirt is Hiring - Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway City
www.cuirt.ie
November 26, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Cúirt International Festival of Literature in #Galway is seeking to appoint a Festival Administrator and Marketing Officer for the 2025 festival. #JobFairy #LiteraryFestival
www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-is-hir...
www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-is-hir...
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We are delighted to announce the dates for #DingleLit2025 📚
Dátaí do do dhialann - 21 - 23 November | Samhain. Lock it in agus Bígí linn 🙌 #FéileLiteartha #GaeilgeBéarla
Dátaí do do dhialann - 21 - 23 November | Samhain. Lock it in agus Bígí linn 🙌 #FéileLiteartha #GaeilgeBéarla
November 25, 2024 at 2:54 PM
We are delighted to announce the dates for #DingleLit2025 📚
Dátaí do do dhialann - 21 - 23 November | Samhain. Lock it in agus Bígí linn 🙌 #FéileLiteartha #GaeilgeBéarla
Dátaí do do dhialann - 21 - 23 November | Samhain. Lock it in agus Bígí linn 🙌 #FéileLiteartha #GaeilgeBéarla
Sunday night preparations, just one of the many things I don't miss about academia.
November 24, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Sunday night preparations, just one of the many things I don't miss about academia.
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Foggymist: what cup ?
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Foggymist: what cup ?
November 23, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Foggymist: what cup ?
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Foggymist: what cup ?
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Books about writing and thoughts about writing books. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Karl Whitney: In the gold rush of writing, choose your shovel wisely
People are always interested in learning about the craft of writing. Karl Whitney recommends some books on that very subject.
www.irishexaminer.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Books about writing and thoughts about writing books. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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My essay, 'Fishing, Art & Gentrification', is included in the book 'A Sea Change: Political, Natural, & Cultural Ecologies of the Mediterranean.
Eds. Yiannis Colakides @nemeorg.bsky.social Tatiana Kourochkina, Helena Pérez, and Victoria Sacco. FREE pdf 👉 bit.ly/3KfY5nJ
Eds. Yiannis Colakides @nemeorg.bsky.social Tatiana Kourochkina, Helena Pérez, and Victoria Sacco. FREE pdf 👉 bit.ly/3KfY5nJ
November 22, 2024 at 10:36 AM
My essay, 'Fishing, Art & Gentrification', is included in the book 'A Sea Change: Political, Natural, & Cultural Ecologies of the Mediterranean.
Eds. Yiannis Colakides @nemeorg.bsky.social Tatiana Kourochkina, Helena Pérez, and Victoria Sacco. FREE pdf 👉 bit.ly/3KfY5nJ
Eds. Yiannis Colakides @nemeorg.bsky.social Tatiana Kourochkina, Helena Pérez, and Victoria Sacco. FREE pdf 👉 bit.ly/3KfY5nJ
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Super excited to see the latest open-access title in the Electronic Communities of Making series Stuart Moulthrop + I edit at Amherst College Press: check out *Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method* from Milena Droumeva + lots of fabulous contributors - www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method
Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experiential media of video games into text for close rea...
www.fulcrum.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Super excited to see the latest open-access title in the Electronic Communities of Making series Stuart Moulthrop + I edit at Amherst College Press: check out *Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method* from Milena Droumeva + lots of fabulous contributors - www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Should be on here.. creativewritingstudies.net
Home - Creative Writing Studies Organization
Creative Writing Studies Organization The Creative Writing Studies Organization is dedicated to helping creative writing studies establish itself through increasing the visibility of scholarship that ...
creativewritingstudies.net
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Should be on here.. creativewritingstudies.net
I haven't made a game in almost ten years, although I made my first one in 1983. I feel a project coming on.
wondering if anyone created a #gamedev starter pack?
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
I haven't made a game in almost ten years, although I made my first one in 1983. I feel a project coming on.
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Hi, everyone! finding folks interested in computation, AI, teaching, writing, games, technology, society, governance, etc. Still over there, but trying out here, too.
November 16, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Hi, everyone! finding folks interested in computation, AI, teaching, writing, games, technology, society, governance, etc. Still over there, but trying out here, too.
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Apply today to Banff Centre's SCIENCE FICTION residency -- 2 weeks in the mountains with mentorship from amazing authors AI JIANG (@aijiang.bsky.social), PREMEE MOHAMED (@premeemohamed.com), and AMAL EL MOHTAR (@amalelmohtar.com). Seriously awesome: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit... #scifi #awesome
November 15, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Apply today to Banff Centre's SCIENCE FICTION residency -- 2 weeks in the mountains with mentorship from amazing authors AI JIANG (@aijiang.bsky.social), PREMEE MOHAMED (@premeemohamed.com), and AMAL EL MOHTAR (@amalelmohtar.com). Seriously awesome: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit... #scifi #awesome
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Levenshulme Old Library is currently open for applications to our this.
We're recruiting two emerging creative writers for You Are Here, a new project coming to Levenshulme next spring.
Find out more and apply here: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/2024/09/30/y...
We're recruiting two emerging creative writers for You Are Here, a new project coming to Levenshulme next spring.
Find out more and apply here: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/2024/09/30/y...
November 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Levenshulme Old Library is currently open for applications to our this.
We're recruiting two emerging creative writers for You Are Here, a new project coming to Levenshulme next spring.
Find out more and apply here: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/2024/09/30/y...
We're recruiting two emerging creative writers for You Are Here, a new project coming to Levenshulme next spring.
Find out more and apply here: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/2024/09/30/y...