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Playing the posts: post-Anthropocene, posthuman, post-apocalypse
by Lawrence May and Poppy Wilde Published December 2024 Download full pdf of article here. Introduction Today we create and play videogames in the ruins of our own planet, as our contemporary era comes to be defined by inexorable ecological crises and collapse. Alongside planetary catastrophe, questions of who humans are, what we can (or Continue reading
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