flocksy takes
Points of Interest
Essays, articles and writing by other people that I loved:
- "Wandering Above a Sea of Fog" by Esteban Fajardo
- "kentucky route zero and the failings of white leftism" by lotus
- "Your Apocalypse is Bad and Wrong and I would Know." by Nicanor Gordon
- "White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design" by Meghna Jayanth
Websites of video games that I regularly visit:
- Critical Distance
- Bullet Points Monthly
- Unwinnable
- Kritiqal
- No Escape
- Gamers with Glasses
- Aguas' Points
- Aftermath
- Polygon
- Eurogamer
- Paste Magazine
Non-fiction books for more perspective:
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
Fiction books I want to recommend:
- Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation Stories by Ted Chiang
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Homo Faber: A Report by Max Frisch
- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (CW for sexual violence) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig