A few months ago Vrelnir, Degrees of Lewdity’s developer, left a comment under my review of his game. Ecstatic, I reached out and asked for an interview (to which he agreed). During our conversation we discussed DoL's use of violence, navigating the tricky politics of going on "gender bends" around town, his favorite erotic games, … Continue reading Degrees of Lewdity: Conversation with Vrelnir →

Debates around gender and sexual identity are currently framed from the standpoint of a subjective historical narrative that is then used to categorize a particular group by its relation to said record. While identity politics may serve as useful in one sense, by offering an account by which groups can examine and coalesce together beneath, … Continue reading Degrees of Lewdity: A Review →

When one speaks of a pastiche, one refers to a piece which imitates another work or form of art in a way that “pastes” together multiple elements. In terms of form pastiche can be seen as closer to eclecticism than allusion because, while pastiche mixes together a variety of sources and plays off of them, … Continue reading Library of Exquisite Corpses →

Blackness is an idea that to quote Jared Sexton, touches on the concepts of “lack and surplus, negation and affirmation, transcendence and immanence.” To delve deeper, black life is a form of social death, as it is a walking cache of all that its social opposite, whiteness, has constructed the world to avoid, and historically … Continue reading Internal Empire →