Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
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The Electric Playground
ESSAY by STELLA BRENNAN, 2003
for ‘Arcadia: The Other Life of Video Games’ curated by Hanna Scott, Govett Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth.
The Arcades in question aren’t distant tree-filled realms but those garishly-carpeted, dimly-lit caverns crammed with everything from Dance Dance Revolution to Mortal Kombat. -
Relinquish Intellectual Property
ESSAY by LISA SAMUELS
for New Literary History, 2002.
This is an original idea.
That assertion is misleading. Every letter on this keyboard, like every
word in this essay, has been and is continuing to be constructed by myriad forces. I’m driven to write this essay because of the obstructions attendant on seeing verbal ideation as “property.”