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    How Elden Ring Taught me to Love Games Again
    Rowan Fortune
    • May 14
    • 5 min

    How Elden Ring Taught me to Love Games Again

    Overcoming Perfectionism in Play Not since I was a teenager playing Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn has any computer game obsessed me as...
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    A Radical Mask
    Rowan Fortune
    • Apr 23
    • 5 min

    A Radical Mask

    On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...
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    Films, Interrupted
    Rowan Fortune
    • Apr 16
    • 4 min

    Films, Interrupted

    On mobile phones, movie commentaries, Let’s Plays and channel hopping. Sometimes I neglect to write an essay because my thoughts on a...
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    Resurrected Reloaded Revolutions, or, Please Stop
    Rowan Fortune
    • Apr 9
    • 8 min

    Resurrected Reloaded Revolutions, or, Please Stop

    A Review of The Matrix Resurrections, a shrug of a film. At long last I found time to watch the newest addition to the Wachowskis’ Matrix...
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    On Procrastination
    Rowan Fortune
    • Apr 2
    • 5 min

    On Procrastination

    A look at what causes procrastination, with a detour on writer's block. Since I have lately erred a fair bit on my weekly essay writing...
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    She Who Must Not Be Named
    Rowan Fortune
    • Mar 12
    • 4 min

    She Who Must Not Be Named

    The limits of celebrity. I refuse to write about a certain mediocre author of bad children’s fantasy literature. In part because she...
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    Mythology meets Horror in Elden Ring
    Rowan Fortune
    • Mar 5
    • 4 min

    Mythology meets Horror in Elden Ring

    an amateur gamer’s initial impressions It has been over a decade since Hidetaka Miyazaki took over the Demon’s Soul game and laid the...
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    Fatigue, the Weight of the Future
    Rowan Fortune
    • Feb 19
    • 4 min

    Fatigue, the Weight of the Future

    In this blog I recount my recent experiences with illness and fatigue. Omicron, my second Covid-19 infection, has got me thinking about...
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    Cooperative Narrative: A Tale of Two Games
    Rowan Fortune
    • Feb 12
    • 4 min

    Cooperative Narrative: A Tale of Two Games

    Game Review: Brothers and A Way Out. (Contains spoilers for both games.) The last few weeks has not been easy. Recovering from Omicron (I...
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    An Ode to Book Spines
    Rowan Fortune
    • Feb 5
    • 3 min

    An Ode to Book Spines

    Why book spines are irreplaceable, a lighthearted blog. I have mentioned in previous but recent blogs that transporting a huge number of...
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    Boris, Bathed in Blood, not Booze
    Rowan Fortune
    • Jan 29
    • 5 min

    Boris, Bathed in Blood, not Booze

    From Covid to Outrage, Neoliberalism to Care... At the time of writing the UK is embroiled in a political crisis. Or, rather, a crisis...
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    A Brief Defense of Boredom
    Rowan Fortune
    • Jan 22
    • 4 min

    A Brief Defense of Boredom

    What boredom means, on Voltaire and tedium. Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery,...
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    The Horror of Moving
    Rowan Fortune
    • Jan 15
    • 5 min

    The Horror of Moving

    From moving home to gothic horror. Horror often invokes moving. Indeed, and for obvious reasons, moving house is a core trope of the...
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    Squids, Climate and Bigotry
    Rowan Fortune
    • Nov 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Squids, Climate and Bigotry

    An Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...
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    Social Media
    Rowan Fortune
    • Nov 6, 2021
    • 7 min

    Social Media

    A further appraisal of web 2.0, the left, and online fascism Some time ago I took the decision to leave twitter. I did this for...
    37 views0 comments
    Bloch’s Limits
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 30, 2021
    • 5 min

    Bloch’s Limits

    The fourth instalment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...
    32 views0 comments
    Reappraising the Matrix
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 23, 2021
    • 5 min

    Reappraising the Matrix

    A look at camp, kitsch, bad movies, good movies, and the Matrix franchise. With a fourth Matrix film on its way, there is a renewed...
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    Atomisation of the Short Story
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    Atomisation of the Short Story

    On teaching the short story Although I love to talk at length on my passions, sometimes oblivious to the social cues and niceties that...
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    The Sepia-Tinged New
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 9, 2021
    • 5 min

    The Sepia-Tinged New

    A look back and forwards at The New. How long ago was The New? Some twenty odd years. There is a vast ocean of time between right now and...
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    Dystopian Thesis II: The Subversion
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 2, 2021
    • 5 min

    Dystopian Thesis II: The Subversion

    We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no...
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