then we absolutely have to pay more attention to the ways that white supremacy manifests even in our supposedly more progres-sive communities
A question to our workgroup: how will we answer this call with our work?
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- Feb 2022
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it would be a mistake to think that the relative success of Twine means that problems of power have been solved.
I would have to agree, since I didn't really know anything about Twine before now. The media that hold more power in more lives are still fraught with "problems of power."
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Mary Hamilton’s Detritus
Just went and played this game. Amazing. I love how decisions restrict and narrow you. The end game page showing how many objects you have with you feels like death. Here's how many objects you brought from the beginning of your life to the end. Others were lost or forfeited... It is stark. Decisions seem VERY important in Twine.
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And the game can track them without you even knowing it’s happening, so there’s the potential for surprise.1
Kairotic opportunity for reveal at a later point.
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it in-cludes tools that allow Twine authors to conceal the rules and structure of their works from the reader. For example: In a choose-your-own-adventure book, the reader can page through to find the various endings or skip ahead to other segments, and the reader often has to keep track of states relevant to the game (how many weird potions she’s carrying, for instance.) Twine keeps track of these states as the author directs, and it doesn’t necessarily tell the reader it’s doing so. Thus Twine games are often opaque, only re-vealing their full shapes to the player over the course of the narrative and sometimes not entirely at all.
This is interesting, concealing and revealing. What links might this have to defamiliarization? Clearly it is used to make the unknown known, but what about the reverse? This is linked to my questions about knowledge withheld and knowledge not being for everyone.
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share these works with other people like me.
Also like Obsidian
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But I’d been writing in an analytic mode for so long that I couldn’t look at a blank page without my mind struggling to put things in order before I got a single word down. When I opened up Twine, I felt free to just start writing fragments, each in their own passage. The connections could come later.
This is how many people (myself included) talk about non-linear note-taking in Obsidian or other ZK note-taking methods.
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