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paoloruffino.bsky.social
http://paoloruffino.com Senior Lecturer at Dept. Digital Humanities - King's College London / Artist at IOCOSE / Current project: Videogames for the Post-Anthropocene
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Details and calls for all eighteen DiGRA 2025 workshops are up on the website! digraconference2025.org/calls-worksh...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I was really impressed by the level of critique and analysis at the World Through AI exhibition at Jeu de Paume in Paris. In particular the work calculatingempires.net by Vladan Joler and @katecrawford.bsky.social is absolutely worth the trip!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool looking PhD studentship in gaming and sustainability at Uni of Salford here, working with @cultsociologist.bsky.social and Tom Brock. Interested to see the outcomes of this one! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMU434/p... #PhD #studentship #funding #GameStudies #EcoGames

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

My new collaboration with art magazine The Bunker Magazine is about videogames being modified, reinterpreted, hijacked, about videogames being toys. My last feature article discusses queering through modding, plundercore, machinima and virtual photography. [article in English]

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

👏 Meet our eleven new Digital Futures Institute Fellows! Congratulations @lboungr.bsky.social, Rowan Boyson, Mark Cote, Amrita Dhillon, Alex Gould, Elisabeth Kelan, @niccoloridi.bsky.social, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, Astrid Van den Bossche, @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social & @lorenzoz.bsky.social 🔽

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. 📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30 🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

On Thursday 10th I'll be speaking at the University of Westminster as part of the Virtual Realisms lecture series organised by Tadej Vindis and Teodora Alata. I'll talk about my current research on videogames and the (post-)Anthropocene www.westminster.ac.uk/events/paolo...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI: King’s College London is hiring 20 open-ended posts at L/SL level (Asst/Assoc Prof level) in AI + any subject. (Yes, that includes critical studies.) It’s 3 years of 80% “protected” research time, then 2 years to the standard requirements for an open-ended post. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Still a few days left to send us your abstract to the Game Engine Cultures workshop at DiGRA2025

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Postgraduate scholarships at King's College London Faculty for Arts & Humanities for Black, Asian, and minority home students. Please share with those who might be interested. www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

A brilliant text by @therourke.net published on the occasion of our solo exhibition at @aksiomaorg.bsky.social in 2021. It predicts our present condition: we now live in a universe populated by deepfake Elon Musks who are everywhere, all the time.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to announce the Game Engine Cultures workshop at DiGRA2025. Curated by Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Bittanti and Valentino Catricalà. Please send your abstract by April 4th. Workshop date: June 30th at the University of Malta drive.google.com/file/d/1A5pP...

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Registration now open for the online townhall launch of Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA): bit.ly/439e41h. Join us on 6 March to learn about our plans for #AI in screen heritage. Speakers from @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @FilmArchivesUK @BFI #film #TV #archives

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Come do a fully funded PhD with me & Tom Brock on gaming & sustainability (please share). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX765/p...

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Deleuze & Guattari a partire da Kafka: «Quando Kafka indica fra gli scopi di una letteratura minore “l’epurazione del conflitto che oppone padri e figli e la possibilità di discuterne," il suo non è un fantasma edipico ma un programma politico"»... letteraturapensiero.com/2025/01/31/k...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

The Video Game History Foundation is opening a digitised archive of (mostly US) game magazines www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j... @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's plans to annex Greenland may be geopolitically motivated, but they also very much reflect the neocolonial mindset of the tech broligarchy: Greenland in particular has been on their radar for some time, and on the other site they are already envisioning their AI-fueled settler fantasies 1/

submitted 125 days ago • 15 comments

Message to all universities as the new semester begins

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

submitted 131 days ago • 235 comments

Very excited to share the 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 special issue of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮, edited by me and @poppywilde.bsky.social The issue considers the relationship between videogames and the post-Anthropocene, posthumanism and the post-apocalypse: gamescriticism.org/issue-6-a/ #gamestudies

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

I’m really excited to be part of this fantastic issue of the Journal of Games Criticism, curated by @larrymay.me and @poppywilde.bsky.social. My article explores some of the methodological implications in the study of games and the Anthropocene, focussing on a re-evaluation of the notion of scale.

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

I finished teaching my Playful Theory class, a seminar for studio artists focused on games. It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers. Thread🧵

submitted 153 days ago • 17 comments

Hello, world!

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