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REPLY TO J. KÖLLER
First published June 2014. Full letter PDF here. Joe: We share the majority of your criticism of academia; we don’t think it’s worth the trouble for everyone. We’re witnessing a time in Western, first-world societies when there is a mass intelligentsia that has made the formal institutions of academia seem burdensome. We’re thinking of formal institutions like… Continue reading
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: “CYBORGS AND ACADEMIA”
by Johannes Köller First published June 2014. Full letter PDF here. To the Editor: Let me start off by congratulating you on the first issue of your new journal. The launch of a new academic publication is rarely accompanied by much fanfare, so the fact that you have already started discussions in the wider game-dissecting public, or… Continue reading
The Journal of Games Criticism is a non-profit, peer-reviewed game studies journal that strives to connect the conversations between traditional academics and popular game critics. The journal strives to be a producer of feed-forward approaches to video games criticism with a focus on influencing gamer culture, the design and writing of video games, and the social understanding video games and video game criticism.
ISSN: 2374-202X
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