Jonne Arjoranta @jaranta@scholar.social
Post-doc at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies. Specialized in philosophy, game studies and digital culture.
Joined Mar 2018
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An archive of scanned Infocom documents, saved by Steven Meretzky (who wrote Planetfall, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddess of Phobos, etc) and archived by @textfiles https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet
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Academic job market joke Show more
A board game cancelled after criticism of its portrayal of colonialism.
game studies, definitions, Wittgenstein Show more
typo, Derrida, penis Show more
John Lysaker writes about the different varieties of philosophical texts for Aeon:
https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophical-writing-should-read-like-a-letter-written-to-oneself
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Philosophy 205a: How to study philosophy without becoming a shitty defeat-you-with-facts-and-logic bro on the internet
Prerequisites: even a very small amount of self-awareness
How do we figure out what is fake on the internet? Usually by the wrong weak signals, when we should be using the network properties of the web.
I'm only tangentially familiar with the whole digital humanities and computational literary studies fields. This seems like a very damning take on the approach.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Digital-Humanities-Debacle/245986
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"Academic Libraries That Spent the Most on Subscriptions - The Chronicle of Higher Education" (paywalled so no link!)
Someone on birbsite took the data and put it up -- for both private and public institutions!
Birbsite link: https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1110401555457630208
NYU came in 15th -- I honestly didn't know that (not a subject selector and no access to budget for collections)
http://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/academic-libraries-that-spent-the-most-on-subscriptions-private.pdf && http://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/academic-libraries-that-spent-the-most-on-subscriptions-public.pdf
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Friends looking for a postdoc, take a look at this opportunity in Utrecht "Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities"
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6514826570971037696
Today at CPH:Conference, Art, Technology & Change. The day starts with surveillance capitalism, with a reference to Shoshana Zuboff's new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
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Mastodon admin help request; Boosts++ Show more
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In case you needed more reasons not to like Elsevier.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw8b9/elsevier-user-passwords-exposed-online
"Everything should be simple and clear and pure between us."
I did not previously know that Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger were once lovers.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/25/hannah-arendt-martin-heidegger-love-letters/
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This is a regular reminder that there will always be more ideas than you know what to do with, and more often than not someone has already ran with the better ones, saving you a lot of trouble and effort in the process
Post-doc at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies. Specialized in philosophy, game studies and digital culture.
Joined Mar 2018
