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navigating the digital continuum of museums and playgrounds
As I navigated the digital realm of META-STRAND, its dual essence resonating, I found myself amid a dance of binaries. Here in this meta-world, inspired…
Schrödinger’s META-STRAND: a perpetual state of becoming
I sit at my desk, staring at the multiple tartan-clothed notebooks and digital notes on the screen scattered before me. Each fragment represents a small…
in praise of fragments: dissecting Death Stranding in a post-linear world
As an inquisitive scholar in a world obsessed with completion, seeking nuance and revelation in the cracks between disciplines, why do I find myself magnetically…
meta-commenting on META-STRAND: the ultimate vivisection of intellectual alchemy
Jacques Derrida would be positively giddy at the inception of META-STRAND’s meta-commentary section. The project itself is a vivisection of Death Stranding, a game shimmering…
why Death Stranding deserves a hyper-contemporary exploration
Death Stranding.”What’s that?” If you think Death Stranding is just FedEx meets Fallout, oh fellow, do I have news for you.Death Stranding.It’s not just a…
why META-STRAND’s habitat is a website
the new public square Let’s start with an unassailable truth about academia, shall we? The eternally spinning hamster wheel of ‘publish or perish’. The days…
what’s in for you
… gamers, scholars, readers
Journey with META-STRAND through fragmentary cultural studies insights into Death Stranding’s world of isolation, human connections, and relations with technology, immersing in cross-disciplinary theories and contemporary thinkers to reimagine knowledge discourse for the digital age.
Apart from the actual analyses and deconstructions, find a detailed documentation of the project’s architecture and character as well as a comprehensive list of references and more. And most important: meta-commentaries on the why and how of META-STRAND.
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