Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy

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Aarseth, Espen, 2–3 CALLMOO and, 132 Cybertext and, 14, 16, 21, 95 ergodic literature and, 14, 16, 21, 95, 153 game studies and, 161 ludology and, 14–16 University of Bergen and, 20, 132 AberMUD, 98, 115 Aca-fandom, 161–163 Actor-network theory, 24 ADD, 33 Administrators, 27 choral code and, 62, 68 hackers and, 49 MOOs and, 105, 113, 118, 121, 124–130, 133 as wizards, 105 Adventure (game), 97 Aesop, 12 Aesthetics, 7–8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 149–150 Afghanistan, 52–53 “After the Last Generation: Rethinking Scholarship in the Days of Serious Play” (Moulthrop), 91–92, 95, 115 Aldus PageMaker, 42 ALGOrithmic Language (ALGOL), 35–36 Allen, Paul, 41 Allen, Tim (Gemba), 103, 107, 112 Alphabetic writing, 4 AlphaMOO, 101–104, 112 Altair computer, 40, 42 Ambiguity of Play, The (Sutton-Smith), 16 Amphibian identity, 1, 25, 162–163 Analytical Engine, 28–29 Anderson, Judy (Yduj), 104, 106–109, 113–114 Anderson, Todd, 85 Angry Birds (game), 44 Anonymous, 53 Antifoundationalism, 2 API system, 103–104 Aporia, xii Apostle, The (film), 8 Apparatus, 163 Baudrillard and, xiv–xv behavior and, 9–10 chora and, 56–57, 61, 64, 66, 69, 155 conductive history and, 9, 61, 69 digital, 6, 149 hacker noir and, 28, 54 institutions and, 8–9 literacy and, 4, 8–9, 153–154, 157 ludic ethics and, 143, 149, 151 machine and, 4 ontologies and, 11 philosophy and, 10 religion and, 8–11 state of mind and, 9 three registers of, xi Ulmer and, 6–7, 154 venture and, 91 widescope and, 4–12, 17, 20–21 Index 184 Index Apple Computer, 40–44, 86, 89 Applets, 51, 126, 131–132 Application Program Interface (API), 103–104 Applied Grammatology (Ulmer), 5–6 April Fool’s Day hack of 1992, 109 Aristotle, xii, 147 ARPANET, 46–49, 65, 77, 97 Artaud, Antonin, 93 Artificial intelligence, 26, 35, 69–70, 97 Artificial Reality (Krueger), 93 Aspnes, James, 98–101, 166n4 Assange, Julian, 52–53 Assembler, 61, 70 AstroVR, 118 AT&T, 46, 62, 66–67, 79–80 Atanasoff, John Vincent, 32 Auger, Pierre, xvi Augur, xvi Augustin, Larry, 85 Avatar Emergency (Ulmer), 4, 8, 11, 143, 146–147, 156 Avatars, ix body and, 21, 25 chora and, 91 as eidos, 149 electracy and, 4 (see also Electracy) flash reason and, 17 games and, 134, 141 orality and, 146–147 as prosthetic body, 11 Ulmer and, 4, 8, 11, 25, 143, 146–147, 149, 156 Axis of pleasure/pain, 3, 12–13, 21, 66, 91, 143, 145, 151, 158 Babbage, Charles, 29, 147 Barber, John, 95 Barthes, Roland, 144 Bartle, Richard Allan, 96–99, 115 BASIC, 41, 76 Bataille, Georges, xiv Batch processing, 38, 58–60, 63, 69 Baudelaire, Charles, x Baudrillard, Jean, xiii–xv Baudry, Jean-Louis, xi Being and Becoming, x, 11, 21 Being and Time (Heidegger), 18 Bell Labs, 36, 60–62, 64, 79 Bellovin, Steve, 48 Benjamin, Walter, xiv Bermel, Albert, xv Berners-Lee, Tim, 66 Berry, Clifford, 32 Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 137 BioGate system, 126, 131–133 BioMOO, 117–121, 126 Birkerts, Sven, 157 BITNET, 49–50 Bizzell, Patricia, 2 Blanchard, Mark, 121 Blindspots, 155 Blizzard Entertainment, 166n6 Blogs, 16, 163 Bogost, Ian, x, 15, 41, 56, 95, 142–143, 161–164 Brand, Stewart, 50–51 Bricoleurs, 92 actor-network theory and, 24 Altair and, 40, 42 chora and, 66, 80–82, 88 constructionism and, 24 hackers and, 23–25, 28, 32, 37, 44, 80–82 heuretics and, 23–24, 28 invention and, 23–24 Lévi–Strauss and, 23–25 meaning of term, 23 morphisms and, 24–25 protocol and, 66 science, 32 technology and, 24 British Legends (game), 97, 166n3 Broderick, Matthew, 26 Browser wars, 83 Bruckman, Amy, xxi, 114, 117–119, 129 Index 185 BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), 44, 46, 116 breaks from Unix, 66–67 choral code and, 57, 62–69, 74, 77–80, 85–86 Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) and, 65, 67 consumer feedback and, 65 copyright and, 67 distinct flavor or, 65 enCore and, 127 FreeBSD and, 68 layer model and, 66 NetBSD and, 68 new releases of, 64–65 OpenBSD and, 68 portable programming and, 67–68 TCP/IP protocols and, 65 386BSD and, 67–68 BSDi, 67 Buena Vista University, 119 Buffer overrun, 166n5 Bugs code and, 58, 66, 68–69, 72, 75, 128 enCore and, 128, 133–134 MOOs and, 100, 102, 111, 113, 121, 128–129...