Tag Archives: Lana Polansky

Telling Stories Through Glitches: Review of Ghosts in the Machine

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Kaitlin Tremblay

For a book that involves worlds and places we can never inhabit, Ghosts in the Machine speaks a lot of truth about how we interact and exist in our own day to day lives. Ghosts in the Machine is a short … Continue reading →

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Against Diluting Censorship

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Lana Polansky

Lana Polansky “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” -Soren Kierkegaard The past few weeks have been dogged by some rather unsavoury aspects of videogame subculture regarding rape culture and … Continue reading →

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In Defence of Criticism: The Close Reading

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Lana Polansky

By Lana Polansky In what has become the standard model of “games criticism,” a game’s value is broken into a rubric, where each of its component parts examined and measured. Graphics, sound, gameplay, story—each one isolated and evaluated according to … Continue reading →

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