I wrote an article for GameIndustry.biz’s Why I Love series about Disco Elysium. Some ideas were adapted from my essay Techniques of Thought: Cognition, Identity…
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Techniques of Thought: Cognition, Identity and Ideology in Disco Elysium
An essay written for my interactive storytelling class. Disco Elysium begins in blackness. Words fade in against the emptiness. It is your ‘Ancient Reptilian Brain’…
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On Secret Hitler
A short essay written for my interactive storytelling class. Secret Hitler is a hidden role multiplayer card/board game which attempts to simulate the complex political…
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Gender in the Shell: The Self, Society, and Body in Ghost in The Shell
This is an essay written for my Gender Identity in Literature class. Also available on Medium: https://medium.com/@chapelman/gender-in-the-shell-the-self-society-and-body-in-ghost-in-the-shell-e47986e724d9 In the penultimate scene of Ghost in The…
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A Close Reading of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation
This is an analytical essay written for my Speculative Fiction class. Also available on Medium: https://medium.com/@chapelman/ted-chiangs-exhalation-a203a5bec15c “When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as a naturalist, I…
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