Tuesday, April 23 2013
“A Game of Chess”: ‘Breath of Death’ Is ‘The Waste Land’ of Video Games
In part, the wasteland of The Waste Land is high culture. It’s the sprawling tradition of genius texts that have been shredded and strewn about by an increasingly shallow popular culture. T.S. Eliot would have hated video games.
Tuesday, June 14 2011
The Changing Nature of the Nature of Art
As artists have become less concerned with telling stories and more concerned with creating emotional connections and mimicking experiences, art has shifted from creating beauty to expressing the heady nature of 'truth'.
