Comments on: Prey http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/ trivia since two thousand two Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Brad http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/comment-page-1/#comment-26454 Brad Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:37:16 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/#comment-26454 Gareth, This all sounds really interesting. JM, I'm flattered to be visited by the author of an article I referred to, and would love to have the Borges reference if anyone can find it-- a cursory glance doesn't turn up anything but half-leads, and I don't know Borges' work well enough to be able to say whether this essay exists or not. Do let me know if you track down the reference. On Borges, I recently listened to his <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BORTCD.html" rel="nofollow">Harvard Lectures</a> as I was commuting in and around New York, and noticed just now browsing around that I couldn't read even the smallest fragments of his work without hearing it read to me in his beautifully distinctive, slow lilting voice. Gareth,

This all sounds really interesting.

JM,

I’m flattered to be visited by the author of an article I referred to, and would love to have the Borges reference if anyone can find it—a cursory glance doesn’t turn up anything but half-leads, and I don’t know Borges’ work well enough to be able to say whether this essay exists or not. Do let me know if you track down the reference. On Borges, I recently listened to his Harvard Lectures as I was commuting in and around New York, and noticed just now browsing around that I couldn’t read even the smallest fragments of his work without hearing it read to me in his beautifully distinctive, slow lilting voice.

]]> By: JMT http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/comment-page-1/#comment-26395 JMT Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:46:41 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/#comment-26395 Isn't there a Borges essay about the nightingale as a metaphor for the inescapable and impossible quests in various moments of literary history? Is this episode about Emerson's night-warbler included in the essay? Isn’t there a Borges essay about the nightingale as a metaphor for the inescapable and impossible quests in various moments of literary history? Is this episode about Emerson’s night-warbler included in the essay?

]]> By: Gareth R White http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/comment-page-1/#comment-26383 Gareth R White Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:47:38 +0000 http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2007/07/prey/#comment-26383 I love it! Makes me think about the way video games appear to offer you some kind of agency but at the same time configure you into a preferred performance, in some cases literally making you their prey. In another respect this is a simplification of the negotiation that takes place between player and game, which I'm using in my dissertation with reference to Michel de Certeau's concept of tactical appropriation of space - in the sense that the player uses tactics to undermine the strategy of the game in order to make the play session their own. Also interesting because I cited RWE in one of my earliest video game essays, via Marshall McLuhan's work on tools as extension of human capabilities, with the idea of mediating one's senses during embodied game play. I love it!
Makes me think about the way video games appear to offer you some kind of agency but at the same time configure you into a preferred performance, in some cases literally making you their prey. In another respect this is a simplification of the negotiation that takes place between player and game, which I’m using in my dissertation with reference to Michel de Certeau’s concept of tactical appropriation of space – in the sense that the player uses tactics to undermine the strategy of the game in order to make the play session their own.
Also interesting because I cited RWE in one of my earliest video game essays, via Marshall McLuhan’s work on tools as extension of human capabilities, with the idea of mediating one’s senses during embodied game play.

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