Archives: meta-commentaries

Here you will find technical notes and records related to the project's development and decision-making. The goal is to provide context and transparency into key aspects like:

  • Technical implementations
  • Platform choices
  • Creative directions
  • Collaborative efforts
  • Ongoing evolution

While dry at times, these documents illuminate the thought and care put into each building block of this endeavor. They chart a path through the choices that shape META-STRAND, inviting fellow explorers behind the scenes.

Please browse, inquire, and share feedback on any documentation that piques your interest. This space will grow over time, chronicling both milestones achieved and new frontiers yet to be uncovered.

navigating the digital continuum of museums and playgrounds

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reading time: 5 minutes 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 by the postmodern video game Death Stranding, the conceptual divide between museum and playground converged, manifesting in a spectral form that I will refer to as the “semiotic playground.” But […]

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Schrödinger’s META-STRAND: a perpetual state of becoming

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reading time: 5 minutes 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 piece of my larger project, an interdisciplinary analysis of the video game Death Stranding. Some pages contain polished arguments ready for publication, others merely skeletal outlines waiting to be fleshed

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

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reading time: 5 minutes 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 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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meta-commenting on META-STRAND: the ultimate vivisection of intellectual alchemy

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reading time: 3 minutes 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 with metaphysical gravitas, but this commentary section does more. It is a vivisection of a vivisection, peeling back the layers of the project’s own hermeneutics to ask, “What am I

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why Death Stranding deserves a hyper-contemporary exploration

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reading time: 5 minutes 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 game; it’s an existential quandary served on a disc. Or a download. Whatever tickles your byte. A smorgasbord of art, narrative, and a dollop of existential dread

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why META-STRAND’s habitat is a website

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reading time: 5 minutes 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 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

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the name META-STRAND: beyond the game, beneath the layers

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reading time: 5 minutes the meta ressonance of Death Stranding There I was, nestled comfortably with a glass of Port Charlotte, the heavily peated 10-year aroma teasing my senses, much like the grandeur of Death Stranding always teased my thoughts. I’d had this grand vision – a magnum opus, if you will – an encyclopaedia of game analyses, a

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why Death Stranding: bridging gaps in a fractured world, and why I just can’t let go

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reading time: 5 minutes the melodic appeal of a broken symphony Pour yourself a cup of that bitter delight, dear reader. Yes, the one that, if it were to be personified, would feel like J.R.R. Tolkien and Depeche Mode bumped into each other at a clandestine nightspot, somewhere between Middle-Earth and a dim underground club. Sip on it, for

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open scholarship

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reading time: 2 minutes no encryptions attachted 😉 knowledge democracy Working in higher eductaion and scholarship, I’ve seen how academic knowledge has traditionally been governed by strict conventions – rigorous coordination, coherence, and culmination. But the digital revolution has profoundly disrupted this order. Innovations like open access, versioning, and perpetual peer review aren’t just digital gimmicks – they represent

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