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Funeral Rites
A pen-and-ink drawing of a terrifying creature with a skull-like visage. The creature and the background are colored a vibrant magenta while its bright yellow eyes seem to pop from its skull.

The Neon Nightmare of Portents of the Degloved Hand

By Dr. Emily Price • March 31st, 2023

Portents of the Degloved Hand’s promotional material describes its purpose as adding “additional chaos, misfortune, and even dark humor” to MÖRK BORG.

Past Presence
An N95 mask with yellow straps lying on a sky-blue countertop.

Manufactured Ends

By Dr. Emily Price • March 27th, 2023

Or, why I still wear a mask.

Past Presence
The main characters of the TV show Normal People cuddle in an autumnal field.

Being So Normal

By Dr. Emily Price • February 28th, 2023

Sally Rooney books are basically Victorian novels in millennial form, Middlemarch if Dorothea and Lydgate had cell phones and email.

Past Presence
A top-down map from the videogame Dwarf Fortress showing the labyrinthine halls of a massive underground cavern.

Recursion

By Dr. Emily Price • January 26th, 2023

Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.

Past Presence
The title screen for the movie Gremlins. The word "Gremlins" is superimposed in red over the the snowy idyll of Kingston Falls, Pennsylvania.

Enter the Gremlins

By Dr. Emily Price • December 23rd, 2022

Emily’s (live) reactions to the movie, time stamped if you want to watch along.

Past Presence
A screenshot from the videogame Roadwarden shows a crossroads in a pixelated, sepia-toned wood.

Roadwarden

By Dr. Emily Price • October 27th, 2022

There is a gate made out of living thorns, a tree that drinks your blood, and a river with birds that call to you in human screams.

Past Presence
A striking black and white image of spreading plant roots.

Rehearsal

By Dr. Emily Price • September 2nd, 2022

The Rehearsal has been called manipulative, sociopathic and dangerous by people on the internet. All of these are obviously exaggerations and misnomers.

Past Presence
In key art from the videogame Portal 2, protagonist Chell faces off against GlaDOS, the robot antagonist.

Anything

By Dr. Emily Price • June 28th, 2022

A large part of being a good critic is being able to be sincere. And part of that sincerity is admitting that sometimes, you just like what you like.

Past Presence
A moody shot of a thatch-roofed tiki bar called The Rum Colony from the videogame Kentucky Route Zero.

Cheap Machines

By Dr. Emily Price • May 31st, 2022

Using speculative genres, games propose a horror that lies within debt and the meaningless work meant to assuage it: that rather than being a neat system with a clear path to success, it is instead an unresolvable problem.

A sepia photograph of seven men in coats and hats standing on a temporary ramp ascending to the top of the still under-construction Brooklyn Bridge.

As the Sea-Gull Flies

By Dr. Emily Price • May 4th, 2022

The success of the Met in the last few months has inspired a new museum that has opened in our very own South Brooklyn: The Sea-Gull Gallery, a two-story establishment not five blocks from our offices.

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