Monday, May 14 2012
Systemic and Subjective: The Violence of ‘The International’ and the Global Financial Order
The weapons deals in The International and the back-door negotiations between corporate lobbies and Congress are two sides of the same coin; both use overwhelming systemic violence to further their ends.
Monday, July 19 2010
‘Jass’ Gives You the Feel for Early American History
Take a tour of Storyville where Jazz began and murder prevails, bringing in the likes of David Fulmer's hero who is as good at solving crime as he's crippled by his love of an irresistible whore.
Wednesday, April 7 2010
Building a Better Murderer
Darksiders offers nothing especially new in terms of teaching the player to kill, but what it it does do better than many games is teach the player to be a more efficient and effective murderer by changing up some existing mechanisms of training the player in the deadly arts. Largely, this boils down to creating some rules for murder.
Wednesday, October 7 2009
“RE: Raw Video of Derrion Albert 16 teen year old beaten to death ...”
How slow is too slow for non-violence? One girl counts to five and voila!
Tuesday, August 19 2008
Me, Myself & BBCi: Who’s Watching Whom
The extensive use of mirrors in the Big Brother house behind which many of the cameras are hidden means that when the contestants hear the voice of authority, it is their own reflexion that they see back.
Tuesday, March 25 2008
Thou Shalt Kill: A Look at Violence in Video Games
L.B. Jeffries takes a look at the arguments behind the debate on violence in modern-day video games.
Friday, April 20 2007
God of War II
The God of War franchise is as over the top as an action movie -- there's no point in warning you not to try this at home, because you can't.
