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Greg Borenstein

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Senior Technical Game Design Manager at @riotgames: Design Lead on Secret New Thing. Before: TFT, Nexus Blitz, NYU ITP, MIT Media Lab, @MinorityReport futurist.

 Los Angeles, CA
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Since I’m not going to finish another book today it looks like this finishes my Book Thread for this year. 66 books and ending with Mark Fisher seems appropriate: nitter.cf/atduskgreg/status/1608… Thought I’d write a little bit about my 5 favorite books from the year…
Greg Borenstein (@atduskgreg) profile pictureGreg Borenstein@atduskgreg30 Dec 2022
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66. K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher I’d been slowly savoring this huge collection over the course of the year, not wanting to run out of unread Fisher. Having read the politics of excerpts what hit me hardest was the section on Popular Modernism…
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Scott doesn’t discount the real utilitarian gains created by some of these schemes but he also shows how many of them oversimplified the world’s complexities to the point of absurdity or mistook the visual aesthetics of order for rationality itself.
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And he ends with some intriguing off ramps to sites of resistance (or recomplication): the “Métis” of hands-on (and especially indigenous) knowledge and various forms of anarchic resistance to legibility.
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Is there a good book about the history of satanic panics? I’m curious about the connection between the conservative christian paranoid reaction against horror and fantasy media of the 70s and 80s and online reactionaries’ obsessive hunt for “woke” messages in today’s media.
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