Eric Stein (he/him)

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New PMG video just dropped. It's.. a big one. Government wargaming is on the rise again, like it's never been before. Today we break down why that should scare you, why the commercial games industry is already involved, and why we need to wake up. (youtube.com)

i've released a new draft of THE SEVEN PART PACT, my insane wizard game that i've been working on for the past year+, on the possum creek patreon! you should go check it out if you're interested in wizards, crunchy mechanics, or patriarchal power structures

Very excited to be presenting our panel, "The Lived Politics of the Negative," at Generation Analog. This panel brings together several tabletop game designers to challenge the pulverizing and exploitative genre label hopepunk through critical discussion of their own design work.

As promised, my @CGSAACEV paper "Dreams of Extraction" is now available open access. Using the critical aesthetics of Rancière, Bourriaud, Parikka, and Graeber, this paper close reads Starfield's story to articulate its "techno-ecological imaginary." zenodo.org/records/125942…

It was a pleasure to present on the Ecology, Environmentalism, and Climate Change panel today at the @CGSAACEV annual conference. I'll have my paper, "Dreams of Extraction: The Techno-Ecological Imaginary of Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield," up on on Zenodo soon.

It's ZiMo / Zine Quest season and I'm too tired to run a campaign of my own, but I'm so excited for The Magus in print by @momatoes and The Bird Oracle by @sawdustbear. Wonderful stuff. Check these out 👇 kickstarter.com/projects/nessu… backerkit.com/c/projects/shi…

See also this essential reporting from Canadaland canadaland.com/podcast/mining…

"any thorough discussion about gold will inevitably intersect technology, colonialism, war, and climate change" youtu.be/ihvG3RgbYzE

"this stuff actually is valuable. If it wasn't, people wouldn't be stealing it. Creativity doesn't feel super special or unique until you realize people have to plagiarize it" youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ

"Every sky is full of stars ... 'Daytime' is us closing our eyes and pretending it makes infinity go away" xkcd.com/2849/

"we can actually start new institutions" I've listened to @CANADALAND since I was an undergrad. I've been extremely negligent not supporting until now, but better late than never! Commons, Thunder Bay, White Saviors—these are essential listening play.acast.com/s/canadaland/6…

"It's just Reddit's version of the Rapture" youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA

Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis is almost out! It will be published this winter by Amsterdam University Press, kick-starting a new book series on green media. #toc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aup.nl/en/book/978946… #ecogames @humanitiesuu @MMGameCentre @CoEGameCult @afterclimate

After a few months hiatus, I've returned to this series of essays, continuing with chapter three of Empiricism and Subjectivity. "Determined Figures"—on rules, practical reason, and the logic of existence. steinea.ca/2023/09/16/det…

The next post in this series is up on the site now! "A Model of Actions," on chapter two of Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity. steinea.ca/2023/06/18/a-m…

I am starting up a new approach to my research and writing practice, so of course we must begin with Deleuze. "We Can Always Play Backgammon," a short essay on the first chapter of Empricisim and Subjectivity (1953). steinea.ca/2023/05/26/we-…

"you give total annihilation more than a line and it will swallow your story whole" Wonderful, powerful, necessary work as always from @yacobg42 youtu.be/O9N7Awpk9lE

@friede @transcript_fatt is a pretty incredible community-driven effort: sites.google.com/view/fatttrans… I'd be very interested to see the results that come out of your research!

Basically what we’d be doing is layering interpretive tagging on top of the transcripts to see what we can find out. That could mean how often people of different genders speak, how often GMs speak, or particular language use.

#TTRPG Actual Play nerds: if your show has clean transcripts and you might be interested in having some nerdy-ass folks study them, email me? No generative nonsense -- a former student & I are trying to build a corpora to look into larger patterns across the form.

On the Back of a Tiger is a 68pp, A5, staple bound poetry chapbook using formal experimentation to explore questions of language, ethics, and subjectivity. You can pick one up from Gumroad now! steinea.gumroad.com/l/on-the-back-…

Physical copies have arrived! If you've been waiting to get a print copy, now is your chance.

I am quite excited to announce Paper Engines, a new series of poetry chapbooks that I will be publishing alongside my tabletop games @itchio