Author: smurray

I’ll be in esteemed company on March 17-18 with Armond Towns, Rianka Singh, and André Brock at NC State University’s Technologies of Race Symposium. I’ll be speaking at 3:00pm EST on Thursday, March 18th!

Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media Symposium 2021 – Technologies of Race: Politics, Affect, Platforms

Sunday, March 21 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM PDT I’ll be speaking on some of my new critical games studies writing on representation as part of #scms21 with fantastic colleagues Alenda Chang, Tara Fickle, and Christopher Patterson!

Panel: V12: Diversity Beyond Representation: Critical Video Game Studies at a Crossroads

My talk: Video Games and Representation: Methodologies of the Hollow and the Loaded

…for a wonderful visit! On 1 February 2021, I was pleased to share some of my forthcoming writing on video games, aesthetics and political affect with UCSC’s Computational Media PhD students and faculty. Special thanks to Samantha Conde for hosting.

From this essay, forthcoming in the European Journal of American Studies:

“Days Gone becomes useful not as a literal political perspective, but as an object of concentrated political intensity of feeling.”