'heidegger' Tag

• Do you support Wikipedia? News from the Trenches of the Science Wars 2.0

  December 8, 2008

  I show that asking whether Wikipedia is a reliable academic source enframes Wikipedia into an objectless standing-reserve of potential citations, foreclosing many other possibilities for its use. Instead of asking what Wikipedia has done to reality, I ask: what have we done to Wikipedia in the name of reality?

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Response: Neuromancer by William Gibson

  March 23, 2007

  William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer tells the story of a team of radically different technologically-savvy individuals who are recruited by a young artificial intelligence named Wintermute, who desires to bypass the limitations placed on it by its owners and the authorities.

  posted in Reviews and Responses by R. Stuart Geiger

• Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

  May 5, 2006

  The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger