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Fiction and Reality Event - Thurs 5th November, at the LSE

On Thursday evening Standpoint and the Forum for European Philosophy are holding an event at the LSE. I will be in dialogue with Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, and we will be discussing 'Fiction and Reality: Writing ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, Standpoint,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lionel Shriver

Chess moves with the political times

In 1984, the Orwellian year in which Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov first sat down to play, chess was as Russian as vodka. The rematch that began this week in Spain marks the resumption of a duel between two names as evocative of Russia as ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, Times Online,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Bobby Fischer,  Garry Kasparov,  Anatoly Karpov,  Boris Spassky,  Richard Nixon

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, by Christopher Caldwell

In June 2009, an incident took place at Conway Hall in London’s Red Lion Square, the hallowed venue of secular leftist gatherings since the 1930s. Anjem Choudary, a radical Muslim preacher and leader of the Islamist organization al-Muhajiroun, was ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, Commentary,  25 Aug 2009

Column: 'Lingua Franca' – The Fun Of Language Development with Bookworm Adventures

Of course, the sequel to Bookworm Adventures has just been released as of press time, so in the fight for relevancy (because eh, Portal, Dragon Quest IV, Syphon Filter and Gorons aren't particularly new release material) I caught up with Senior ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, GameSetWatch,  14 Aug 2009

Council OKs tax vote

Amid financial turmoil, Salinas residents will have to decide this fall if they want to tax themselves to fight crime and fund city services. The additional personnel would cost $15.7 million annually, said city Finance Director Tom Kever. On Tuesday, ...

From JIM JOHNSON AND DANIEL LOPEZ, Monterey County Herald,  23 Jul 2009

Column: 'Lingua Franca' – Memberships, Hierarchy and Lore of the Gorons

All this yip-yap means nothing without hard proof, which is why I want to magnify this idea (of how video games transfer ever-changing cultural skills to players over a series of iterations) with some analysis over the next few columns. Ocarina of ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, GameSetWatch,  20 Jul 2009

Obama urged to punish US firms for aiding internet censorship

Internet activists are urging Barack Obama to pass legislation that would make it illegal for technology companies to collaborate with authoritarian countries that censor the internet. Leading companies earn hundreds of millions of pounds every year ...

From BOBBIE JOHNSON, DANIEL NASAW, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Google Inc.,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush

Column: 'Lingua Franca' – Mapping Gamer Dialect

As a group of people who share a common fondness to video games, our commonality creates what one might call a subculture. There are ways in which we interpret and react within this world that is heavily influenced by our role as a member of the video ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, GameSetWatch,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Shigeru Miyamoto,  Will Wright,  Capcom

Column: 'Lingua Franca' – Australian Larrikinism in Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow

['Lingua Franca' is a biweekly GameSetWatch-exclusive column by Daniel Johnson which discusses the relationship between language, culture and video games. This time he discusses Australian larrikin Dane Bishop in Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow.] The ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, GameSetWatch,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Filter (musician),  Wikipedia,  Sony

Column: 'Lingua Franca' – Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution

Portal's narrative component can be dissected into two key parts; the static, compulsory narrative (the relationship between the protagonist and Glados) and the variable player narrative (everything else, ie. the game world). Since the relationship ...

From DANIEL JOHNSON, GameSetWatch,  1 Jun 2009

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