An exploration of #VideoGame performances, this book merges #MediaTheory with performativity, revealing insights from Western art to digital storytelling.
"Delusional isn't quite the word to describe the characters of On The Beach—they often recognize that their behavior is irrational. Instead, I think Shute makes clear that they simply don't know how else to act."
Just finished Outer Range (2002) and now I'm reading a few major-outlet reviews.
And it brings back my old amusement/skepticism about reviews -- the sense that there is no such thing as a qualified, well-informed POV that can give you a good aesthetic vantage point on art.
This feels like one of those forms of cynicism that's troubling, right up until you completely surrender to it, at which point perhaps it becomes... freeing?