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Finn Dawson

@antipollution.bsky.social
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PhD @ USYD — Games, World-building and Capitalism — he/him

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Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New career milestone: Yesterday @antipollution.bsky.social informed me that our paper is now cited in Wikipedia. I think I can happily retire now.
A screenshot detailing a Wikipedia footnote that reads '9. Dawson, Finn; Barkman, Cassandra (2026). "Interface Games as Microgenre: Definition and Thematic Investigation". Television & New Media. doi:10.1177/15274764251410591. ISSN 1552-8316. LCCN 99009518. OCLC 231901154.'
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Cassandra (Cass) Barkman @cassiebara29.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How prophetic given the article @antipollution.bsky.social and I wrote earlier this year exactly on the microgenre of interface games! You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Interface Games as Microgenre: Definition and Thematic Investigation - Finn Dawson, Cassandra Barkman, 2026
In this article, we identify and define an emerging microgenre of videogame we call the interface game. While all videogames contain interfaces, “interface game...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"The most characteristic SF does not seriously attempt to imagine the real future of our social system. Rather, its multiple mock futures serve the quite different function of transforming our own present into the determinate past of something yet to come." Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
totally baller move by Fredric Jameson to make the conclusion of Postmodernism more than 100 pages
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Feathers McGraw @feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@cassiebara29.bsky.social and I have a new article out about the "Interface Game" microgenre: games that remediate user interfaces (like Hypnospace Outlaw and Her Story). Check it out at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Interface Games as Microgenre: Definition and Thematic Investigation - Finn Dawson, Cassandra Barkman, 2026
In this article, we identify and define an emerging microgenre of videogame we call the interface game. While all videogames contain interfaces, “interface game...
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
about to become extremely annoying
An image of my hand holding Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]):
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Sydney Harbour Bridge today -- have never seen anything like this
Image of Palestine protestors on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
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Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
$ilkmoney gotta be the only person in the world rapping about ray-tracing
lyrics from the rapper $ilkmoney: "Shit, nowadays, I feel so easily irritated/Like how shrinkflation got corporations shortin' me pieces of beef bacon/How the Pro dropped and barely any games even utilize ray tracing"
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
reading the news like
Quote from Billy Woods song "Remorseless": "It's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better"
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Doing both these things at the same time is great because i'm now spending all my time thinking about how DS2 imagines circulation and the importance of logistics/transportation labour for it. You literally build highways to make commodities move quicker!
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Just unbelievably cooked, horrific
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Death Stranding 2 semi-accurately captures Australian verbiage until they start referring to bushfires as "wildfires"
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
born to play Death Stranding 2 forced to read Capital vol. 2
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Reading the first 70% of The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😀 Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Discord is trying to get me to buy orbs and complete quests -- literally who is asking for this shit
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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Walter Benjamin famously argued that fascism is about the Ghibli-isation of politics
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
fuck Windows 11, I'm running the Austin Powers OS
Austin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color ScreenshotAustin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color ScreenshotAustin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color ScreenshotAustin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color Screenshot
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
fuck roguelikes I'm over here playing dictionarylikes and encyclopedialikes
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 24/02/2025
Reading Jameson:
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Reading Typee - Melville loves descriptions of sucking, rubbing, massaging, ejaculating (prayers, of course). Highly erotic work!
Typee by Herman Melville
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We love you Adelaide
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is so disgusting there aren’t words
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
feels like the time to start getting into psychoanalysis
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Dream job is making all of the iRobot robots for AI article header images
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Best drink of all time
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
1.5 million point combo
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Interesting how streaming decision paralysis has led me back to older mediums -- have been listening to nothing but radio for the past few weeks so I don't have to worry about choosing what to listen to (and I won't let the algorithm do it for me!)
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Made not cherry but banoffee pie to rewatch Fire Walk With Me
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Björk describing Pärt's compositions as Pinocchio and the Cricket is so sick www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqE...
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Bjork interviews Arvo Part
YouTube video by La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Spent most of my day watching the NFL and the UFC and feel like I mainlined American fascism
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo album
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Legendary saxophonist Marshall Allen announces debut solo album at age 100
Marshall Allen, the legendary saxophonist, composer, and Sun Ra Arkestra member, is set to share his debut solo album, New Dawn, on February 14th.
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Cradle Mt. In Tasmania
View from Marion's lookout at Cradle Mountain View from Marion's lookout at Cradle Mountain Echidna Photo of a waterfall
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Reading about Rosetti's Wombat
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Giving the Lemonade Monster Rehab ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly subtle Arnold Palmer-esque taste with a good mouth feel and a nicer buzz than a regular Monster. This can was imported so it was $8AUD, but I could see myself grabbing it regularly if it was cheaper. (I wish there was a Letterboxd for drinks)
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
read some Berger by the beach
a photo of John Berger's To the Wedding at the beach
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
reading Brautigan at the pool
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
joinreboot.org/p/mr-beast-s... incredible work
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Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of Money
Taking a look at the world's biggest creator through his content's biggest theme.
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Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Thoughts on R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (1998), Spinoza, and peregrines maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Lots of clarity today
Alex press tweet w/pic of cops locking arms adjacent to striking workers:
"NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol"

https://x.com/alexnpress/status/1869764581360619628Luis Feliz Leon tweet w/pic of cops escorting handcuffed Amazon driver:
"Breaking: Amazon driver attempted to stop his delivery van in support of ULP strike NYC in the warehouse entrance. The cops swarmed him, and he was arrested. Workers surrounded the van, and cops flung them off."

https://x.com/Lfelizleon/status/1869748494250152071
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
culture is looking worse by the day
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
critics & theorists! the CTWG journal, V1 is live as a free PDF on our site! It’s a year’s worth of work—special thanks to the authors (Mac, Sam, J.E. Morain, Esther, Zach) & the ed crew (Anatarah, Re, Jefferson, & last but not least J.E. Morain the V1 Czar). Have at it ya’ll!
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Finn Dawson @antipollution.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
might just pivot every chapter in my thesis to be about Caves of Qud -- I don't want to stop writing about it!
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