Past Presence Object Lessons #3: Megadungeon By Dr. Emily Price • December 27th, 2023 What is a dungeon? This is the kind of question you think about when you draw your fiftieth square grid room that contains yet another statue and another random battle.
Past Presence Jenny from Thebes Review By Dr. Emily Price • December 5th, 2023 Jenny from Thebes is trying harder than maybe any previous album to create a specific place, but it still feels unmoored, somewhere between Greece and Austin.
Past Presence Taking the Cullens to Uniqlo By Dr. Emily Price • October 26th, 2023 You can wear Uniqlo anywhere. Its styling is bizarre and frequently, ugly. I don’t know of a better way to summarize Twilight’s fashion.
Past Presence Object Lessons #2: Smartphone By Dr. Emily Price • September 26th, 2023 How do you represent a technology that’s had an earthquake’s impact, that almost everyone owns and that has made our private lives public?
Past Presence Object Lessons #1: Field By Dr. Emily Price • August 31st, 2023 Are fields a stage for action to take place on, or are they the action themselves?
Past Presence The Wake of the Wake By Dr. Emily Price • June 30th, 2023 Folk-punk, increasingly experimental band AJJ is best listened to when you randomly remember them, like a book of poems you skim through annually and then put back on the shelf.
Past Presence Virtual Citizen By Dr. Emily Price • May 25th, 2023 A legend, per the OED, is “a story from ancient times about people and events that may or may not be true.” If the residents of Wild World are anything in my memory, they are that: ancient stories.
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.
