I'm doing a blogpost a month this year and it's the end of the month and I need something to write about! Luckily GAMES STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, one of my favorite podcasts, released a new episode today, and I listened to it while working on my project, and can write about that!
It's a podcast about making academic books on games studies accessible. I wrote down every scholar (etc) they mentioned or cited in this episode, though, (just got curious when they mentioned my boy Lévi-Strauss and decided to go back to the top and take notes this time,) and it's still... quite academic.
Jaroslav Švelch- the book they did this month is Player vs Monster, instead of his Gaming the Iron Curtain, because it's shorter and they have to read like four books a month across their various podcasts. Maybe someday.
Katherine Isbister- How Games Move Us
Kyra D. Gaunt- never mentioned by name, but the catchphrase of the podcast, "the social is predicated on its exclusions," is from the book The Games Black Girls Play, and it gets discussed several times throughout the beginning of the episode.
Torill Mortensen
Darshana Jayemanne
Sarah Stang
Julia Kristeva
Barbara Creed
Stephanie C Jennings
Gerard Jones- Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence
Noël Carroll
Michel Foucault
Immanuel Kant
Mary Douglas- Purity and Danger
Klaud Lévi-Strauss
Norbert Elias- The Civilizing Process
Graham Harman
David Wengrow
Forrest J Ackerman- Famous Monsters of Film Land
Hiroki Azuma
Patrick Crogan- Gameplay Mode:War, Simulation, and Technoculture.
Peter Galison: The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
Patricia MacCormack
They talk about this video near the end, which video I've referenced myself on this blog, so, Chris Franklin? Who introduced me to the Ranged Touch line of podcasts, incidentally enough.