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American Basement: Race and Horror in the Architectural Imaginary

American Basement: Race and Horror in the Architectural Imaginary

Why is it that exploitative home-based prisons set in the homes of white men feature largely in the social imaginary these days?

Ever Expanding Rather than Moving Forward: The Narrative Experiment of ‘The Charnel House’

Ever Expanding Rather than Moving Forward: The Narrative Experiment of ‘The Charnel House’

The Charnel House is a fascinating narrative experiment in video game storytelling, attempting to tell a story not by moving from point A to point B, but by starting at the center of a story and moving outwards.
Fleeing the Familiar, Embracing the Abject in ‘Beyond Two Souls’

Fleeing the Familiar, Embracing the Abject in ‘Beyond Two Souls’

Within the spaces of darkness or the unknown, Beyond Two Souls asserts that we can exist without being shaped, manipulated, or brutalized by outside forces.