Dom Ford
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Postdoc at @UniBremen. PhD from @ITUkbh 'Mytholudics'. Managing editor @gamevironments and editor @Eludamos. SSBU Mewtwo 0-2er (Arcyte).
Copenhagen and Bremen
Joined February 2009
đź“–My book is out!đź“–. My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available. In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth. @degruyter_brill .
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Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an...
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Recently, I was interviewed about my book for @NewBooksNetwork by Jana Byars! If you want to hear me talk about games and myth for about an hour, please check it out.
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There have been many already written.
There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”.
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Grok 4 feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections, but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasn’t seen before, in ways I haven’t seen elsewhere. Here’s an example:
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RT @suchnerve: printing out a word document that says “i am a person” and then being like omg my printer is sentient now.
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RT @zarahsultana: Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party….
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RT @jacobin: Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it wit….
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Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
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RT @JIBispo1996: CALL FOR ARTICLES - Via Panoramica: a Journal of Anglo-American Studies .Thematic issue: From the Victorian Era to the Ame….
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RT @AntonJaegermm: Very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposively designed to breed illiteracy
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RT @Smash_Denmark: VALHALLA V concluded last weekend. Thanks so much to everyone at the @ValhallaSeries team for hosting the event! . Her….
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So, if you or someone you know is interesting in games and myth, I hope this book helps. And don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions for me - I'm very happy to hear from people about this!.
degruyterbrill.com
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an...
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But I'm very happy to see this out in the world now. It's been a long time in the making, starting officially in 2019 with my PhD but based on ideas I'd been turning over since at least 2015. There are lots of people to thank, but you can read the acknowledgements for that.
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The book is, unfortunately, prohibitively expensive. That's academic publishing for you. Maybe you have institutional access to the ebook, or else requesting it in your library is also a good option. I'm told there will be an affordable paperback later down the line.
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What games you ask? Well, through the lens of heroism, we're talking Call of Duty, Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, Heaven's Vault and Horizon Zero Dawn. For monstrosity, Doom, Pokémon, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifive, Ghost of Tsushima and The Witcher.
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It's long, but designed to be a bit modular. You can just read the section that lays out mytholudics, or you can take any of the game examples as standalone analyses. I don't usually read academic books cover to cover, and so I didn't write this like that either.
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