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Seth Giddings

@sethgiddings.bsky.social
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Out now: Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play (MIT) Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton www.microethology.net Living with motor neurone disease #mnd #als

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"An original perspective and [a] fascinating read, consistently rooted in the dynamics of play, but also informing a range of media studies through the characteristic ‘mode of relationality’ of toys." @neural-mag.bsky.social reviews "Toy Theory": neural.it/2025/06/seth... @sethgiddings.bsky.social‬
Hand holding a copy of "Toy Theory: Technology and Imagination in Play" on a white background. The cover is white and includes three images of children's toys: a model horse, a model airplane, and a model racecar.
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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Speaking about my C64 book in Aarhus this Friday March 21st! cc.au.dk/aktuelt/arra...
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Friday lecture - Jesper Juul talk on the C-64 computer
Welcome to this Friday lecture by Dr Jesper Juul on the classic C-64 computer, drawing on his new book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer.
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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Shout out to our friends at @mitpress.bsky.social who donated all these incredible game history books for our fundraiser! We'll be raffling them off every hour during our Feb 22 charity stream! (love seeing @jzagal.bsky.social @jesperjuul.bsky.social @chaimg.bsky.social and other friends in here!)
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Meredith Bak @meredithbak.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Routledge Companion to American Film History - out today! Incredible to be in such great company. I wrote chapter 1, about cinema and toys.
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The Routledge Companion to American Film History
Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this collection brings together original essays that explore American film history from a fresh perspective. Comprising an introduction and 34 chapters written ...
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Seth Giddings @sethgiddings.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Whose suffering should we care about? Palestinians, trans kids, Afghan women and girls... or a putative future version of glorified predictive text? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research
Experts and thinkers signed open letter expressing concern over irresponsible development of technology
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Why are politicians talking about the destruction of Gaza as if it’s some random disaster? They know the truth: they spent 15 months rejecting our calls to stop arming Israel. Gaza must be rebuilt for Palestinians — and those responsible for its demolition must face justice.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This Friday Feb 7 at 2PM EST, I will speak about my C64 book "Too Much Fun" on the @romchip.bsky.social Twitch channel. See you there. tickettailor.com/events/romch... #c64
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Select tickets – ROMchip Presents: Jesper Juul on Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer – Twitch
**Tickets serve as calendar reminders for the event; they are not required to attend. Head to https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjour...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 28/01/2025
Attacking trans people isn't a distraction that fascists are using to hide what they are up to, transphobia is a core part of their ideology and enforcing patriarchy is an important step in creating the world they want
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/01/2025
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
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Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully For the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still…
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Dr. Adam Procter @adamprocter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
My new Playdate game is out now as part of Global Game Jam 2025 - check it out on itch.io - adamprocter.itch.io/capture-c… 👾
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What happens in Gaza will not stay in Gaza. The brutality, cloaked in the complicity of the 'civilised' West, cannot be contained. Like a deadly virus, it will spread unless humanity acts to cure it. But humanity is ready to move on. Resistance must also fight against amnesia!
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Seth Giddings @sethgiddings.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As the old adage puts it: if a headline asks a question, the answer is most likely ‘no’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Can Labour cut welfare spending and still be seen as a party of social justice?
Labour’s embrace of plans to reduce the incapacity benefit bill by £3bn has the potential to trigger a backbench revolt
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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The book rooted in the 2021 Spring Seminar of Game Studies, "Monstrosity" is now out - expertly edited by Sarah Stang, Mikko Meriläinen, Joleen Blom, and Lobna Sameer Hassan. - "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam University Press). www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Monstrosity in Games and Play
Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell. They reflect our fears, deepest desires, and the monstrosity hidden within ours...
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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Looking forward to speaking about Good Pictures in the History dept at #BristolUni tomorrow — join us! www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...
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Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness and Navajo Sovereignty
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I wrote an article for this special issue on Darkrooms last year and it’s available open access www.eshph.org/journal/phot...
Image of First page of article called Keeping out the Fog:
Atmospheric Contamination and Control in the Industrial Darkroom
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Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Censoring humor, carnival and play is a telltale sign of a fascist regime, as the history of my home country taught us.
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Researchers at Winchester School of Art and UWE Bristol have designed and tested a sustainable, biodegradable electronic textile. e-textiles embed electrical components in fabric and can be worn to monitor a person's vital signs. Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/UoS_News_env...
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Environmentally friendly ‘e-textiles’ technology
Environmentally friendly ‘e-textiles’ technology
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Journal of Games Criticism has a new issue out! Special issue on videogames and the post-Anthropocene, posthumanism and the post-apocalypse, edited by @larrymay.me and @poppywilde.bsky.social. Plenty of exciting new papers. Check out Larry's thread below.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Incredibly excited to announce this special issue of Media Industries Journal that I co-edited with Chris Young and @dayofthemutants.bsky.social on the topic of LOCAL DIGITAL GAME PRODUCTION. journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/issue/31...
List of article titles and authors on the journal website:

Global Localities of Game Production
Chris J. Young, Emilie Reed and Brendan Keogh

Game Design for a Fiverr: Precarity, Regionality, and Platform-Mediation in the Gig Economy
Scott DeJong and Michael Iantorno

Globalization and Heterogeneity: Locating the Malaysian Indie Game Production Culture
K.T. Wong

Situating Platform-Based Precarity: Platformization and the (Dis)embedding of the Dutch Game Industry (1980-2022)
Anne Heslinga

Independent Game Production in Southern China
Hugh Davies
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"An excellent example of an intersectional art-historical monograph, impressive for its incredibly productive dialogue between queer and Indigenous studies." Great review of @lsiddons.bsky.social 's GOOD PICTURES ARE A STRONG WEAPON at The Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2024/12/art_...
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Louise Siddons’s Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon | The Brooklyn Rail
This book recontextualizes Laura Gilpin’s photographs of the Navajo (Diné) people. Weaving together new archival findings, skillful visual analyses, and cultural theory from queer and Indigenous studi...
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I designed the (front) cover for this PJ Harvey live limited edition 7” record for Friendly Records - all proceeds to War Child. A/ I inside the Old Year Dying B/ The Glorious Land. Drawing by Polly Jean Harvey, mixed by John Parish and Oliver Baldwin.
Front cover of PJ Harvey 7 inch single showing drawing of bird in black on off-white background Back cover of PJ Harvey 7inch single showing Friendly Records and War Child logo
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Dr. Adam Procter @adamprocter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fun and Children’s games - francisalys.com/category/… - Francis Alÿs
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I can now announce my book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire is going to be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2025.
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Holly Kruse @hollykruse.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I now own this and am very excited to read it and use it in my gender & tech book!
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Dr. Adam Procter @adamprocter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wooo I have just been awarded a sizable Southampton Enterprise Development Fund! nodenogg.in: Revolutionizing Educational Collaboration More to come but if you interested and have no idea what nodenogg.in is then best to check out legacy.nodenogg.in (warning there will be bugs)
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Garry Crawford @cultsociologist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
CFP: Leisure Studies special issue on Leisure & Technologies. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Leisure and Technologies
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Seth Giddings @sethgiddings.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My book Toy Theory: technology and imagination in play is out now from The MIT Press, paperback and Open Access (follow the link to read online or download). direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Toy Theory: Technology and Imagination in Play
A novel interpretation of the history and theory of technology from the perspective of toys, play, and play objects.Toy Theory addresses the relationships
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