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in praise of fragments: dissecting Death Stranding in a post-linear world

Kommentar verfassen / Von victoria / September 14, 2023

reading time: 5 minutesAs an inquisitive scholar in a world obsessed with completion, seeking nuance and revelation in the cracks between disciplines, why do I find myself magnetically drawn to fragments? It’s like being a kid in a candy store, but instead of sweets, I’m surrounded by these tantalizing, unfinished thoughts. Brief blinking vignettes, cryptic asides, fleeting impressions […]

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why META-STRAND’s habitat is a website

reading time: 5 minutesthe 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 when scholarly works were exclusively bound in dusty, leather-clad tomes, perched on the obscure, seldom-reached shelves of academic libraries, are as outdated as VHS tapes. Yes, those were the “good