Past Presence 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
