Jaroslav Švelch
@raguklemenso
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Researches video games, digital media, monsters, humor // Charles University and FAMU, Prague // Singer/lyricist with Rest in Haste
Prague
Joined April 2008
It's here and it's out! 😈 My book Player vs. Monster launches today on @mitpress. It's a cultural history and a critique of monsters in games that tries to explain why games need monsters at all and what kind of otherness these monsters represent.
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Happy to announce that my ERC Consolidator Grant project "GAMEINDEX:Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR" has been selected for funding. We're starting in October 2025! PS. You can also find me on Bsky as electroslav.
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Charles University researchers have written a new chapter in success, with five of being awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator grants. This is an unprecedented achievement. Five more scientists from...
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RT @bludr: “Hvězdička znamená úspěch, nula je ošidná…”. Vousaté retro z výpočetních středisek v 70. letech. Jiří Bernášek napsal pro Herníh….
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RT @HerniDesign: Zveme na prezentace klauzurních a absolventských her.Pondělí 24.6. 18:30 kino Kavalírka. Vnikneme do koupelen, tajemných v….
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RT @CharlesGames_cz: Playing Kafka is released!🪲A game tribute to the famous absurdist writer is based on Kafka’s works and life, 100% free….
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CEEGS 2024 (which will take place in the wonderful Nafplio, Greece) deadline had been postponed. You have 10 more days for your abstracts!.
Submission deadline extension alert! You can send in your submissions for CEEGS 2024 until 22 April (Monday)! 😍🥳. Please also note that this year CEEGS will include only on-site participation (no hybrid form)!.
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The Czech edition of Player vs Monster has arrived (and exactly on my birthday)! The metallic letters look amazing with @ToonDistortion 's art. Next up: Spanish and Chinese translations.
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RT @rangedtouch: April Fool's! Yesterday we posted March's GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, about the meaning of monsters, what video games have….
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RT @bludr: 🎙️Podcast #246: Monstra. @raguklemenso v pátek vydává knihu Hráč versus příšery, která je výsledkem dlouhého bádání. V rozhovoru….
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The Czech translation of Player vs. Monster coming out April 5. I'm very proud of this version of the book and we spent a lot of time with the translation to make it sound good in Czech.
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A brand new paperback edition of Gaming the Iron Curtain has been spotted at GDC by @aleenachia
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RT @HerniDesign: 💥 Do 17.4 můžete podat přihlášku do magisterského studia herního designu na FAMU. ⚡ Během studia vytvoříte (minimálně) 3….
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The call for the 2024 CEEGS is out! It will take place in Nafplio, Greece, October 10-12. Check it out here:
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RT @ROMchip_Journal: 📢 Join us Friday March 8 with @raguklemenso for a talk about his recent book PLAYER VS MONSTER and the past half-centu….
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Join us Friday, March 8, as ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories hosts games studies scholar Jaroslav Švelch for a talk about h...
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RT @HerniDesign: 🎉Absolventská hra Terezy Kotěšovcové "Planetka" se dostala mezi 6 finalistů ceny o nejlepší studentskou hru na přestižním….
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Happy to share that on Saturday 11am-noon Eastern US time, I will talk about players and monsters at @TheCasaCon, a free online gaming and anime convention that takes place on Discord.
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An article I co-wrote with Patryk Wasiak on educational microcomputers in Poland and Czechoslovakia has just been published in the Journal of Design History. It examines how they were 'scripted' and compares them to the One Laptop per Child project. ⌨️📐
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Abstract. This article investigates the design of two comparable microcomputers that were built under state socialism in neighboring countries: Poland (Elw
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Happy to share the news that I've been appointed "docent" (associate professor) in the field of "Film, televisual, and photographic arts, and new media" for my book on video game monsters 👾👻 Many thanks to all who have supported me and to @fransmayra and other reviewers!
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