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Bibliography for that Pathologic 2 Dramaturgy talk

carrie — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:27:53 +0000

Hi! I’m doing a talk at 6pm Central tonight about the ways theatrical history is crammed into the video game Pathologic. It will be on the Twitch channel edgecasecollective. Here’s the bibliography! Artaud, Antonin. The Theater and Its Double. 1938. Translated to English by Mary Caroline Richards, Grove Press, 1958. Auerbach, David. “Pathologic 2 and Ostranenie.” 29 May 2019, https…

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Stuff That Brings Me Joy: NSP; Extremely Singable 80s

carrie — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:38:38 +0000

This is the first in a series of drafts about the stuff I’m watching, listening to, playing. I did these now and then when I was keeping my journal online, and what better time to bring this habit back than when all my friends are bored? (And I need to start with this topic because I’m embarrassed at how pretentious my last blog post was.) One of my guilty pleasures out of the last five years…

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on being funny in a crisis

carrie — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:15:32 +0000

Junior year of high school was Brit Lit, one of my favorite classes in all of high school, and I adored my teacher, who was basically what you’d get if Oscar Wilde had come out of 1950s Bridgeport. He had an annual assignment for the Chaucer unit: each of us was to write an intro for a new character who was also on that trip to Canterbury. It could be anachronistic, it could be silly…

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if you stop working in tech and you don’t blog about why, does it count?

carrie — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:11:33 +0000

I’m wrapping up at Slack this week. I’ve been with these folks for 6 years, plus the 9 weeks I worked on Glitch the Video Game. I love the people there, and I’d recommend it as a place to work if you’re in tech and live in one of the cities Slack is located. I’ve been in tech for 15 years now. Yet, since I was in college, I have wanted to work in dramaturgy, or as a lit manager for a theater.

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Starting, for real

carrie — Fri, 10 May 2019 20:34:58 +0000

I had the day off of work today and for various reasons I don’t want to go into, social media is a wildly awful place for me to be right now. So it was time to sort out this website for real, and HA. All I had to do was update the blog to have a landscape from Glitch and suddenly I’m now comfortable with people looking at it. Next up: emptying drafts of my writing over the past 2 years onto the…

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Starting over

carrie — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 02:54:18 +0000

I haven’t bought a new domain name and put it to use since 2006. It’s been 2008 since I last had an empty blog. I’m not sure what’s more overwhelming, an empty page or a default theme. Empty pages are failures to create words, and a default theme is a failure of imagination. Except: that’s nonsense! I judge the work I haven’t done more harshly than anything I have done and that’s one hell of a…

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