Catégorie : English
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TACK N°11 : DARE.
By Bastien Silty and translated by Maia Sefton. During the past year we have had the chance to approach a great number of subjects, which include a huge number of independent video games.We studied these games by taking them out of the authors’ ludography. A ludography is a study of an author’s games as a…
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TACK N°13 : ALL MEN ARE RAPIST
Translated by Maia Sefton (trigger warning: sexual harassment) Every single man evolves in a society that gives him the privilege to dominate and authorises even sometimes urges them to be dangerous for women to preserve the control they already have over them. The simple fact of being a man lets them enjoy an impunity regarding…
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TACK N°12 : Not all heroes wear capes
By Lino and translated by Maia Sefton. Do you need a cape, tights, red underwear and a sigil on your chest to be a superhero? If these clichés, imposed by the american comic book culture after the second world war, they’re nowadays a norm in everyone’s collective imagination for superheroes but they may no longer…
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TACK N°8 : Witches are still terrifying the patriarchy
Translated by Maia Sefton The witch hunts during the Renaissance led to around 100 000 executions in Europe, the victim being mostly old, poor rural women. Between 1560 and 1660, it’s a brutal repression especially along the Rhin, but women are guilty by nature for most catholics. The church strongly encourages the denunciation of Jewish…
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TACK N°7 : PLOGOFF DES PIERRES CONTRE DES FUSILS – Plogoff, rocks against shotguns
By Heolruz and translated by Maia Sefton Generations correspond to the idea that a certain decade is represented by a group of people. We are talking about “generations” to represent our elders or musically speaking, the different decades represent different artists or music genres. “Generations” are even mentioned in the famous game Pokemon, all of…
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TACK N°7 : Is video game consumption determined by age?
by Bastien Silty and translated by Maia Sefton No one consumes video games the same way. If today, I choose to focus on the emotions involved, the depth of the story and the characters, it wasn’t always the case.Today I’m going to find out if there are different ways to consume video games? I remember…
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TACK N°6 : SUMMER IS CALLING : Which body for the summer ?
Wrote by Mayli and translated by Nolwenn. Always under the spotlight, the woman’s body doesn’t have to be functional, strong or healthy, but pretty. Muscles are necessary to seem toned, but they must not be too prominent, at the risk of not being perceived as a REAL woman. Appearances are far more important to women…
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TACK N°6 – SUMMER IS CALLING : Sea of Solitude: the sea, fear, acceptance and surfacing it’s conditions.
Personally I’m not a big fan of summer, I find that this season is just a large amount of time where people force themselves to complete meaningless and futile tasks under the pretext that it’s to get us out of our comfort zones. This idea is not necessarily contemptible, but personally summer has always taken…
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TACK N°5 – WORK : LO-FI « do it yourself » and Soundcloud, workers more than solo artists
by Hugo Verdier and translated by Maia Sefton. The theme of “work” led me to evoke a subject that is close to my heart within the music industry. The goal here is to understand these artists who seem to need no one at all or almost no one. They are composers, lyricists, but above all…
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TACK N°5 : WORK, DEPRESSION AND VIDEO GAMES
by Bastien Silty and translated by Nolwenn. If this tweet from Siobhan Thompson is sarcastic and only partially true, it makes us see that depression holds a huge spot in video games. Rightfully so, because it plays a great part in the making of a game, and for very different reasons, wether if we study…
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