Dr Michael J. Maguire

Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?

This is interesting: aeon.co/essays/why-d...?

_Prog[W]res[tle]s_ | Mez Breeze - Digital America Mez Breeze’s interactive web piece, _Prog[W]res[tle]s_ [YEAR], explores themes of doom scrolling, political erosion, climate change, extremism, and gender-based objectification. Breeze creates AI-coll...

There’s something poetic about milestone numbers, and Issue 25 of the fantastic "Digital America" online mag feels like that. I’m pretty goshdang happy that _Prog[W]res[tle]s_ was selected to feature in this 25th edition [+ having a Q+A published about the work + my artistic history].

I found Nabokov's 'pale fire' needs to be re-read as it's almost impossible to really get it all first time around, progress reforms assumptions during first reading. Flann deffo but also Vonnegut too. There's always a tbr list that competes.

Lost in The Backrooms [or How I Learned to Love the Liminal] Experimental storyteller and digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The Backrooms, a found footage web series which is based on a popular creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, B...

It's out!

"Storyteller + digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The #Backrooms, a #foundfootage web series which is based on a popular #creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, Breeze confronts the feelings of alienation and predation inherent to late-stage capitalist society."

A Call for contributions for our special issue to celebrate Joseph Tabbi’s work and career and 30 years of Electronic Book Review. Please consider sending us your works!

Artists, Activists, & Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future.

Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.

Free copy/ree PDF 🙂

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And so begins ELO's 25th anniversary year! Don't miss the summer conference in Toronto and Waterloo. Submit by Jan 5!

eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...

YouTube video by Cercle Ólafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle

Some of the music I have been #writing to for the last year or so youtu.be/bMCiAKNUpTY?...

#freepalestine #endtheoccupation

Cúirt International Festival of Literature in #Galway is seeking to appoint a Festival Administrator and Marketing Officer for the 2025 festival. #JobFairy #LiteraryFestival
www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-is-hir...

Still of Samuel Jackson scene from pulp fiction where he is pointing his gun at one of the student smokers, instead of the words in the original script he is instead saying: Say Starter pack one more time

Too soon ?

We are delighted to announce the dates for #DingleLit2025 📚
Dátaí do do dhialann - 21 - 23 November | Samhain. Lock it in agus Bígí linn 🙌 #FéileLiteartha #GaeilgeBéarla

Sunday night preparations, just one of the many things I don't miss about academia.

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Foggymist: what cup ?

Karl Whitney: In the gold rush of writing, choose your shovel wisely People are always interested in learning about the craft of writing. Karl Whitney recommends some books on that very subject.

Books about writing and thoughts about writing books. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

My essay, 'Fishing, Art & Gentrification', is included in the book 'A Sea Change: Political, Natural, & Cultural Ecologies of the Mediterranean.

Eds. Yiannis Colakides @nemeorg.bsky.social Tatiana Kourochkina, Helena Pérez, and Victoria Sacco. FREE pdf 👉 bit.ly/3KfY5nJ

Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experiential media of video games into text for close rea...

Super excited to see the latest open-access title in the Electronic Communities of Making series Stuart Moulthrop + I edit at Amherst College Press: check out *Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method* from Milena Droumeva + lots of fabulous contributors - www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Home - Creative Writing Studies Organization Creative Writing Studies Organization The Creative Writing Studies Organization is dedicated to helping creative writing studies establish itself through increasing the visibility of scholarship that ...

Should be on here.. creativewritingstudies.net

I haven't made a game in almost ten years, although I made my first one in 1983. I feel a project coming on.

Thanks for that..

wondering if anyone created a #gamedev starter pack?

Hi, everyone! finding folks interested in computation, AI, teaching, writing, games, technology, society, governance, etc. Still over there, but trying out here, too.

Apply today to Banff Centre's SCIENCE FICTION residency -- 2 weeks in the mountains with mentorship from amazing authors AI JIANG (@aijiang.bsky.social), PREMEE MOHAMED (@premeemohamed.com), and AMAL EL MOHTAR (@amalelmohtar.com). Seriously awesome: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit... #scifi #awesome

You Are Here: Emerging Writer Opportunity

Levenshulme Old Library is currently open for applications to our this.

We're recruiting two emerging creative writers for You Are Here, a new project coming to Levenshulme next spring.

Find out more and apply here: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/2024/09/30/y...

Just did.

Thanks again @mezbreeze.bsky.social

Hi Mez, thanks for doing this.. I would like to be added please.

So I've just made this Starter Pack of #electronicliterature and digital narrative peeps: there's more of you out there that need adding, so please don't be shy in letting me know who you are [maybe you have suggestions @eliterature.bsky.social, @samplereality.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social]?