A promotional video for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt depicts the preparations of a young woman’s execution. Her alleged crimes are murder, looting and cannibalism, we hear it read it outloud as three men wrestle her to deliver the conquesting empire’s justice. As the beating takes place, arrives the protagonist…

“You are banished from death,” tells a figure shrouded in shadows to the fading protagonist of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. He is brought back to life after the brutal murder of himself and his family. A curse binds him to the shadows and the figure behind them, we come to…

What is violence? Videogames have been occupied with this question ever since Spacewar! (1962). It is a rather simple game in terms of intertwining systems compared to modern ones and to the subject at hand. Exploring how violence is depicted is a long and complicated journey, which we’ll try to…

Consider John Hyams’ Sick as an allegory for hostility. It imprints this notion in the film’s representation of bodies. Human flesh is pummeled, pierced and cut. Violence is being done by humans to humans. …

To have access to something is to have the ability to interact with it in ways this thing implies interaction. Some things have the ability to carry out actions in relation to things without this ability. Consider that water particles present in the air affect things. This makes their ability…

A review is an act of repetition. It repeats what its composer has heard before and what they perceive to have been heard before. By repeating, what has been heard, it gets rewritten. This repetition doesn’t appear as such for the composer, hence they perceive this activity without this denotation…

What is criticism’s raison d’être? To criticize. Criticism’s purpose then is to criticize, we propose by saying this. It may criticize everything and anything. But going by this reasoning, we cannot distinguish criticism from utterance, as it can also refer to everything and anything. To be able to refer to…

Videogame studios regularly release patches and upgrades that aim to fix and enhance the game in question. This affirms that the work of art needs fixes and enhancements and an intent of rectification from the creators. The former points towards a notion of incompletion, while the latter conceptualizes it as…

Consider everything that includes every thing. Looking at it from the present, we may conclude that it does include every thing. If it is true at every present moment, then it must include moments we looked at to see if every thing is included. In other words, everything must include…