Open Access Journals: SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture

This paper sets out to elaborate an alternative framework for rethinking sexual subjectivity, and in particular its relation to notions of 'disability'.

Better dicks through drugs? The penis as a pharmaceutical target
Petra Boynton

This paper makes a critical intervention into the marketing, use, and effects of sex drugs.

Digital memories, analogues of affect
Robert Payne

This paper explores the role of memory in the constitution of identity.

Pagan Poetry, Piercing, Pain and the Politics of Becoming
Greg Hainge

This paper provides an account of the role of pain in the process of (un)becoming.

The Christological Imperative: notes towards a speculative re-interpretation of Catholic martyrdom
Daniel Nourry

Vol 1 Number 2 June 2004 - Ghost & Their Machines: Magic, Technology and the Uncanny

Contingency on the Island of Ghosts
Stephen Muecke

This paper addresses rituals in Madagascar, engaging in an open dialogue with cultural practices involving ghosts and magic.

Machine Love and the Uncanny Object: A Children's Story
Annette Hamilton

An anthropological exploration of alternative conceptualisations of objectivity and things, focusing on objects considered uncanny.

The Ghost In/On The Machine: Magic, Technology And The "Modest Witness"
Anne Cranny-Francis

An examination of the response of scientific discourse when it is confronted by evidence of supernatural phenomena.

Dream Cities: The Uncanny Powers of Electric Light
Scott McQuire

A study of the uncanny properties attributed to electricity and electric lighting in early Modernity.

Seeing Impossible Bodies: Fascination as a Spatial Experience
Patricia Pringle

This paper details several illusionist magic practices of the early 20th century, and their legacy for the experience of spatiality.

Technology and Magick
Steve Collins

This paper reports on the contemporary practice of Chaos Magic, which fuses quantum physics, magic rites and computers.

Vol 1 Number 1 January 2004 - Ludic Moments

Co-Creative Media: Online Multiplayer Computer Game Culture
Sue Morris

This paper examines the texts and practices of first-person shooter (FPS) computer games, and the development of an online multiplayer community that is highly social and self-regulating.

The Experience of Information in Computer Games
Patrick Crogan

This paper considers the experience provided in the First person Shooter as a ludic variant of the logistical tendency to anticipate the future by means of modelling and simulation.

Playing in the Zone: Thirdspace in Jet Set Radio Future and Shenmue II
Brett Nicholls & Simon Ryan

Cybergames are currently the site of more capital investment and more real-time cognitive activity than any other form of mass entertainment, but it does not follow that players automatically become capitalism's drones. This study of specific games argues that they emerge in and through what Edward Soja calls

"Thirdspace".

Games, Simulation & Serious Fun: An Interview With Espen Aarseth
Patrick Crogan

Neither gaze nor glance, but glaze: relating to console game screens
Chris Chesher

If cinema audiences relate to the screen as a gaze, and television viewers with a glance, what is the equivalent regime of vision for players of console games? It's not the glance, nor the gaze, but the glaze: immersive, sticky and reflective.

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