Nora N. Khan

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Chimeras

June 24, 2014 by cillian19

Playing a symphony on board the station above the new world, the man leans hard towards the old sounds, places his cheek against the cold speaker. Even as the vessel flings forward through a stream of detritus – bows of dead satellites, many-ton compacted cubes of trash – and the view out is brilliant, his mind stays on the Rachmaninoff, on Van Cliburn. Number Two, as far back as he can remember, has been punctuated by the soft tick of the breathing machines, […]

Categories: Affect, Creativity, Nostalgia, Writing • Tags: Cyborg, Cyborg Manifesto, Digital, Digitalisms, Donna Haraway, Technology, Technoromance, Technoromanticism

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Nostalgia Mining

June 3, 2014 by cillian19

Certain songs take on colossal, completely disproportionate significance for me, giving me an inordinate amount of happiness no matter how many times played, no matter the time of day. The Borderlands opening theme song, “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” is one of them. I’m playing it right now. It isn’t a particularly great song, not one I’d glom onto if I heard it at random on the radio. The song is important for me because it is associated with an experience, […]

Categories: Affect, Creativity, Game Reviews, Games, Nostalgia, Process, Reflection, Time, Writing

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