I was honored to receive an invitation this week to head back up to Stanford — right across the Bay from my alma mater, UC Berkeley — to give a talk as part of the “Digital Aesthetics” workshop series. The workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, so it will be a really nice opportunity to strike up a dialog with my fellow humanists (who can sometimes feel far away here at UC Irvine, since they’re literally on the other side of campus).
I’ll be speaking about my forthcoming monograph, which pairs queer theory and game studies to argue for the inherent queer potential of video games, but I’ll also be exploring some new work — possibly my book-project-idea-in-the-works about video games and the politics of affect.
Thanks to Shane Denson and Jeff Nagy for the invite! More info coming soon on exact dates…
