distinguished minds
Here’s a snapshot of influential thinkers and their central contributions to my interdisciplinary analyses of Death Stranding.
- Aarseth, Espen – cybertext
- Adorno, Theodor – critical theory
- Ahmed, Sara – gender studies
- Ainsworth, Mary – developmental psychology
- Alexander, Bruce – psychology
- Anthropy, Anna – gender and game studies
- Anzaldua, Gloria – feminist theory
- Appadurai, Arjun – anthropology and globalization studies
- Arendt, Hannah – political philosophy
- Bachelard, Gaston – epistemology
- Barad, Karen – agential realism
- Barrett, Lisa – neuroscience and psychology
- Barthes, Roland – semiotics
- Bateson, Gregory – anthropology and communication
- Baudrillard, Jean – postmodernism
- Bauman, Zygmunt – sociology
- Beck, Ulrich – sociology
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- Bergson, Henri – philosophy of time
- Bhabha, Homi – critical theory
- Bogost, Ian – procedural rhetoric
- Borges, Jorge Luis – literary fiction
- Borgmann, Albert – philosophy of technology
- Bostrom, Nick – philosophy
- Bowlby, John – psychology
- Braidotti, Rosi – posthumanism
- Buell, Lawrence – environmental literary criticism
- Burgess, Jean – digital media studies
- Butler, Judith – gender studies
- Cacioppo, John – social neuroscience
- Campbell, Joseph – mythology
- Casey, Edward – phenomenology
- Certeau, Michel de – cultural theory
- Christakis, Nicholas – sociology of medicine
- Churchland, Patricia – neuroscience and philosophy
- Clover, Carol J. – film studies
- Connell, Raewyn – masculinity studies
- Crenshaw, Kimberly – legal scholarship
- Davis, Mike – environmental humanities
- Dawkins, Richard – evolutionary biology
- Deleuze, Gilles – post-structuralism
- Derrida, Jacques – deconstruction
- Dick, Philp K. – science fiction
- Eco, Umberto – semiotics
- Elson, Diane – economics and gender studies
- Eskelinen, Markku – cybertext
- Feynman, Richard – theoretical physics
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen – digital humanities
- Flanagan, Mary – digital humanities
- Foucault, Michel – critical theory
- Fox Keller, Evelyn – feminist science studies
- Frasca, Gonzalo – ludology
- Fraser, Nancy – political philosophy
- Freud, Sigmund – psychoanalysis
- Gallese, Vittorio – neuroscience
- Garrard, Greg – ecocriticism
- Gauntlett, David – media studies
- Gee, James Paul – literary studies and education
- Geertz, Clifford – anthropology
- Giddens, Anthony – sociology
- Gilroy, Paul – cultural studies
- Goffman, Erving – sociology and symbolic interactionism
- Green, Joshua B. – digital media studies
- Grosz, Elizabeth – feminist theory
- Guattari, Félix – psychoanalysis
- Halberstam, Jack – gender and queer studies
- Hall, Stuart – cultural studies
- Han, Byung-Chul – cultural theory
- Haraway, Donna – science and technology studies
- Harvey, David – Marxist geography
- Hayles, N. Katherine – posthumanism
- Heisenberg, Werner – quantum mechanics
- Hemmings, Clare – feminist theory
- Hill Collins, Patricia – feminist philosophy
- hooks, bell – intersectionality
- Huizinga, Johan – cultural history
- Iacoboni, Marco – neuroscience
- Illouz, Eva – sociology
- Irigaray, Luce – feminist philosophy
- Jenkins, Henry – convergence culture
- Juul, Jesper – video game studies
- Kinder, Marsha – visual culture studies
- Kittler, Friedrich – media studies
- Konijn, Elly – media studies
- Krauss, Rosalind – art theory
- Kristeva, Julia – feminist theory
- Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth – psychiatry
- Landsberg, Alison – media studies and memory research
- Lanier, Jaron – virtual reality
- Latour, Bruno – science and technology studies
- Laurel, Brenda – computer science and theatre
- Le Guin, Ursula K. – science fiction
- Lefebvre, Henri – social theory
- Lévy, Pierre – cyberculture studies
- Livingstone, David N. – humanistic geography
- Lucas, Caroline – environmental politics
- Lugones, Maria – decolonial feminism
- Lyotard, Jean-François – postmodernism
- Manne, Anne – social theory
- Manovich, Lev – media studies
- Markham, Annette – digital media and communication
- Marx, Karl – political philosophy
- Massey, Doreen – humanistic geography
- Massumi, Brian – political philosophy
- McGonigal, Jane – game design
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice – phenomenology
- Minsky, Marvin – cognitive science
- Mohanty, Chandra Talpade – transnational feminist theory
- Morton, Timothy – dark ecology
- Murray, Janet – interactive narrative
- Nakamura, Lisa – cyberculture studies
- Nixon, Rob – literary environmentalism
- Oppermann, Serpil – environmental humanities
- Ortner, Sherry – anthropology and cultural studies
- Paasonen, Susanna – media studies and emotion research
- Pallasmaa, Juhani – phenomenology of architecture
- Pearce, Celia – game design
- Pfaller, Robert – cultural studies
- Preciado, Paul B. – gender and queer studies
- Propp, Vladimir – folkloristics
- Rettberg, Jill Walker – digital culture
- Rheingold, Howard – virtual communities
- Rigby, Kate – environmental humanities
- Rose, Gillian – feminist geography
- Ryan, Marie-Laure – narratology
- Salen, Katie – game design
- Savulescu, Julian – bioethics
- Schrödinger, Erwin – quantum mechanics
- Sedgwick, Eve – gender and queer studies
- Seger, Linda – screenwriting
- Shahane, Anoushka – affective neuroscience
- Shiva, Vandana – environmentalism and activism
- Singer, Tania – neuroscience
- Stanford Friedman, Susan – feminist theory
- Stengers, Isabelle – cosmopolitics
- Stiegler, Bernard – science and technology studies
- Suchman, Luca – anthropology of science and technology
- Taylor, T.L. – media studies
- Ting-Toomey, Stella – communication and identity studies
- Todorov, Tzvetan – literary theory
- Tsing, Anna – environmental anthropology
- Tuan, Yi-Fu – humanistic geography
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- Virilio, Paul – cultural theory
- Wark, McKenzie – cultural studies
- Warwick, Kevin – cybernetics and robotics
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- Woolf, Virginia – modernist fiction
- Young, Iris Marion – feminist political theory
- Žižek, Slavoj – critical theory
- Zuboff, Shoshana – surveillance capitalism
- Zunshine, Lisa – cognitive literary studies
