Yaz Minsky
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Plague Art: Making Sense in the Midst of Death
What can the 16th-century Isenheim Altarpiece, Ice Pick Lodge's video game Pathologic 2, and Jonathan Glazer's short film Strasbourg 1518 tell us about this awful and frightening year? How can you engage with art in the midst of mass death, and what kind of art can make meaning of these conditions? A video essay about how to do art criticism in a pandemic.
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Animal Crossing and the Ideology of Chill
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Animal Crossing is a relaxing game of normalcy and routine which makes it a perfect chance to examine what we actually consider to be normal, and why the things that feel like the everyday are still the results of decisions, ideologies, and worldviews. Works Cited Videos Folding Ideas, "Minecraft, Sandboxes, and Colonialism" th-cam.com/video/d6i5Ylu0mgM/w-d-xo.html CrappyCaptureDevice, "Animal ...
Christian Communist DESTROYS PragerU with FACTS and LOGIC
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Yaz_Minsky ko-fi.com/yazminsky www.patreon.com/yazminsky A rebuttal of a PragerU video, a debunking of libertarian notions of property rights, and a discussion of Christian Socialism and 17th-century English anarchist farmers.
We Need To Talk About Cyberpunk
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We need to talk about cyberpunk (the genre, not the game) (okay the game a little bit too). Cybperpunk 2077 has been criticized for its handling of issues related to trans representation and disability, and this criticism made me want to look back at the retro cyberpunk the game is inspired by. We can find that the genre has a lot of negative baggage and regressive worldviews in its roots, and ...
In Every Whopper, A Heartache: Fast Food, Capitalism, and Mental Health
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A response to Burger King's #FeelYourWay, and an examination of mental illness and fast food capitalism as comorbid disorders
Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
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You could fit almost the entire history of videogames into the time span covered by the silent film era, yet we consider it a mature medium, rather than one just breaking out of its infancy. Like silent movies, classic games are often incomplete, damaged, or technically limited, but have a beauty all their own. In this spirit, indie game developer Joe Blair and I built Metropoloid, a remix of F...
Yaz Minsky / Grief Seed - "Eight Full Hours of Sleep" (Against Me! cover)
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A standalone video for the version of "Eight Full Hours of Sleep," used in my Alpha Centauri video here: th-cam.com/video/1m0aEO7CrxM/w-d-xo.html Song written by Laura Jane Grace Grief Seed is Yaz Minsky on synths, Versalvernacular on vocals Yaz_Minsky vrsalvernacular
Sid Meier at the End of History: the Philosophy and Politics of Alpha Centauri
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An examination of the 1999 strategy game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri its history, the way it comments on the political anxieties of its own time, how it grapples with the legacy of the Civilization games, and what it has to teach us. Recommended viewing: Philosophy Tube, "What Was Liberalism" th-cam.com/video/VlLgvSduugI/w-d-xo.html
Phantasy Star IV, Ludonarrative, and the Artistic Value of Classic Games
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In which I examine my favorite Sega Genesis RPG and what it can teach us about how to perform critical readings of older games. Yaz_Minsky