Monthly Archives: August 2012

Emulators: Engaging With The Past

I’m currently reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence and in the introduction she makes the point that digital forms of writing could be more prone to obsolescence than print: Consider, for instance, the obsolescence one encounters in attempting to read classic hypertext fiction such as Michael Joyce’s Afternoon on a Mac these days:  Apple fully retired […]

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Recalibrating the First Person Shooter

The First Person Shooter or FPS for short is one of the most interesting genres of video games in my opinion.  Not so much because of all the button mashing in hopes of killing demons, pedestrians, wizards or anybody else that gets in the way of the phallic device portraying the constant in-game avatar, but […]

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Welcome to CYBERTROPE

This site is an attempt to explore narratives in the digital space and to highlight such explorations as they are recorded around the web.   My name is Anderson Evans, I’m a grad student at CUNY Graduate Center (in Liberal Studies with a concentration on Digital Humanities).  My initial intentions for this blog involve considerations […]

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