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A Blogora "Screening" of RIP: A Remix Manifesto?

Submitted by Jim Brown on May 5, 2009 - 11:46pm

During South By Southwest, I wasn't able to attend a screening of RIP: A Remix Manifesto:

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

Aesthletics and whiffles

Submitted by Cynthia on May 7, 2007 - 6:28am

Check out the WIRED article on game designers creating new sports. "Children in playgrounds invent their own physical games every day. It's a completely natural human activity, but it's drummed out of us once we go to school and are told that the small group of advertising-supported team sports are the only 'serious' ones. For the rest of your adult life, you never deviate."

This is exactly why I argued at CCCC in my talk that we should muddy the waters of serious games and perhaps stop calling them serious. It perpetuates the logic of 'sure play' (Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play" 292), rather than embrace Nietzsche's 'play without security' (292). Whiffle hurling looks like such fun! (watch the YouTube link in this article)