Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 olympics was a triumph. An absolute triumph. I would normally hesitate to lavish such uncritical praise in public, but the potential to get this wrong was so strong, such a whirlpool of possible failure, that to steer such a certain and confident course deserves nothing less than […]
Month: July 2012
Whose Games is it Anyway?
I used to be excited about the London Olympics. It was a measured, rational excitement (I don’t do giddy), but I was definitely looking forward to them. I was also happy to argue with those that said that they would be a waste of money, or doomed to fail, but in the last few months […]
Hypertext 2012: Fractal Narratives, Ergodic Literature and Submarines
I have just returned from the ACM conference in Milwaukee, excellently run and as interesting as ever, but smaller than it has been in a number of years. I also co-chaired the Hypertext and Narrative workshop with my old student Charlie Hargood (now a postdoc at Southampton). The Narrative workshop had its inception seven years […]