October 9th
byI’ve been thinking a lot this week about what the goals of criticism should be. I’ve been involved in this for years and yet I’m still not immune to these periodic internal crises of identity. Thankfully, some of the pieces that came…
October 2016: ‘Tricks and Treats’
byLet’s get down to brass tacks: it’s Halloween month. I can tell because I got the treat of another Caturday email featuring Critical Distance’s Cat-in-Residence, Jason, and her costumes over the years. It was the kind of thing that just made me…
Episode 39 – This is Innuendo Studios
byDirect Download Somewhat late, we present this month’s interview of the Critical Distance Confab! I interview Ian Danskin of the Innuendo Studios YouTube channel. In 2014, Ian Danskin made his first YouTube video about celebrity in internet culture: ‘This is Phil Fish,…
New website! Part 1: search
byI’m excited to be hearing so much positive feedback about the new site design. I’ve been working hard to make this into a meaningful improvement to the experience of people coming here for the first time or checking in on a regular…
September Roundup: Globetrotting
byAnother summer fades to autumn right before our eyes and once again we promise ourselves that now, finally, we will fill in the correct year the first try on our next form. I can say we all do that, right? Yes. Yes…
October 2nd
byWelcome to our swanky new website! It’s been an intense week of web development, and I’m not sure I’ve ever felt quite this proud of a website I’ve worked on. I hope you like what you see, and do let me know…
September 25th
byI’m blown away by the volume of high-quality writing this week. All the great stuff seems to be coming out at once! It’s overwhelming. To make it all a little easier to digest, I’ve broken this week’s roundup into four parts. Take…
September 18th
byI don’t look at the weekend the same way as I used to. It’s always had something of a rejuvenatory aspect, a magical means to reset the struggles and stresses of the previous week, enough to make the coming Monday more tolerable—though…
September 11th
byWelcome to this week’s late summer feast of writing on games, semiotics, and dogs. Morality First we address the moral questions explored in interactive fiction, as two critics play the politics of enlightenment. Pigmote Isle | Problem Machine The Problem Machine blog…
September 2016: Globetrotting
byAt last the dog days of summer have arrived in the good ol’ northern hemisphere. I’ve never understood that phrase but I do like dogs, so it gets a pass as far as I’m concerned. With a new month we must of…