Comments on: The Ethics of Selling Children

By: Brice New World | Video Game Tourism

Brice New World | Video Game Tourism — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:57:28 +0000

[...] Stil ist durchaus umstritten, wir erinnern uns alle an die Kontroverse um sie, Jonas Kyratzes und Electron Dance. Mehr noch, sie gehört wohl auch zu den zurzeit so umstrittenen Zinestern, in verquerer [...]

By: The Select Few

The Select Few — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:11:43 +0000

[...] More importantly, it’s not like cancerous arguments are something only trolls and lunatics engage in. They certainly do, and extensively so, but the practice is something we are all a little guilty of sometimes. I know I am. Recently some very clever games writers were, too. It began when Jonas Kyratzes responded to Mattie Brice’s Would You Kindly with a piece titled Would You Kindly Not, superficially a poorly conceived response to her points about satire and power relations in videogames. But past disagreeing with her perspective, Kyratzes went on to talk about her confessional mode of writing, thus rekindling a discussion started by Electron Dance’s The Ethics of Selling Children. [...]

By: Issue 3 – Identities | Haywire Magazine

Issue 3 – Identities | Haywire Magazine — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:02:02 +0000

[...] Mattie Brice’s Would You Kindly can be found here, Jonas Kyratzes Would You Kindly Not here, Electron Dance’s The Ethics of Selling Children here and Brice’s response to the discussion here. On the subject of gamers as the educated elite, [...]

By: Alternate Ending » Take Me Personally, Babe

Alternate Ending » Take Me Personally, Babe — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:36:40 +0000

[...] something. Conversations about personal writing have been going on for a long time now, even before this article now treated as a touchstone for a critique against personal writing. I am interested in the politics surrounding personal writing and personal experience used in [...]

By: The Pantograph Punch — Internet Histories | 18 February

The Pantograph Punch — Internet Histories | 18 February — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:04:02 +0000

[...] writer Mattie Brice (over a piece she wrote on satire in Spec Ops: The Line), Kyratzes linked to The Ethics of Selling Children. Written by Electron Dance writer Joel Goodwin, it’s a piece probing his own discomfort with [...]

By: Confessional writing makes for interesting reading, not always useful criticism | Digital Ephemera

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:29:45 +0000

[...] Since I usually don’t spend much time on Twitter, I missed the conversation around “The Ethics of Selling Children” the first time and only started digging in after Cameron Kunzelman posted Samantha [...]

By: Miércoles en el internet 30/01/2013 - El Vidyo – Cultura ñoña y videojuegos

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:41:04 +0000

[...] autoreferente inevitablemente. Es por eso que tocó un nervio sensible este poderoso e interesante artículo sobre la ética de “vender” la familia (los niños específicamente) para lucr…. Si tienen un inglés por sobre el promedio, vayan a por él now. En contraste, otro político [...]

By: ShaunCG

ShaunCG — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:01:43 +0000

The video I linked to is a lecture Peter Watts delivered in 2009 to promote his novel Blindsight - it's a dramatised dissertation on the science underpinning vampirism. It's really rather good thanks to his background in biology. Your space vampire is far more terrifying. I think it's the Gallagher monobrow which does it.

By: HM

HM — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:22:03 +0000

@Shaun: It's not perfect by any means. The next series I have sketched out has taken many hours to assemble approximately two years of random material into something that seems to flow. I haven't even started writing it yet... Your video sounds interesting. Well, it would if I had the volume up at work. Right back at you, my favourite alien vampire.

By: This Is Not a Story About Gaming with Autism | Augmented Vision

This Is Not a Story About Gaming with Autism | Augmented Vision — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:50:27 +0000

[...] this month, Joel Goodwin published “The Ethics of Selling Children,” an article questioning the increasing prominence of confessional writing in games blogging. [...]