1. Resistance and Rhetorical Tactics: Games and Portfolios Scott Reed, Georgia Gwinnett College

2. RESISTANCE

3. RESISTANCE BOREDOM

4. The post-process moment

5. “ Textuality is thus the terrain on which different conceptions of economic, social, and political conditions are contested with consequences for the formation of the subjects of history, the very consciousness of the historical agent.” – James Berlin

7. ?

10. Discourse!

11. Byron Hawk’s critique: For all our post-process instance on textual negotiation, resistance is strangely heuristic: about the movement of subjects from one position to another.

12. BOREDOM

13. RESISTANCE….

14. BOREDOM Svendsen: An involuntary loss of meaning

15. Boredom is…. Not an emotion, but a “mood” in the Heideggerian sense: an attunement or state of mind. meh.

16. Boredom is…. Not an emotion, but a “mood” in the Heideggerian sense: an attunement or state of mind. As an attunement, proceeds from a complex ecology of relations between individuals and objects. meh.

17. Boredom is…. Not an emotion, but a “mood” in the Heideggerian sense: an attunement or state of mind. As an attunement, proceeds from a complex ecology of relations between individuals and objects. Chiefly characterized by “the withdrawal of meaning” from everyday activities. meh.

18. McKenzie Wark: Games, Boredom, and Digital Modernity

19. In the world of gamespace, “What prevails is the same agon, the same digital logic of one versus the other, ending in victory or defeat” (Wark 6).

20. The issue isn’t that we’re no longer goal directed, but that we’ve forgotten to be any other way.

21. Even negotiated, contingent, resistant meanings risk falling into the same gap.

22. Even negotiated, contingent, resistant meanings risk falling into the same gap. What withdraws is the possibility for meaning itself.

23. Oh crap, now what?

24. First things first.

25. First things first. This is not your enemy.

26. Of course, neither is this.

27. And, ultimately, neither is this.

28. It’s more like this.

29. MATERIALS TACTICS

32. Embrace the digital agon. Pew pew Pew pew

33. “ I don't view [electronic music] as identification with machines; it's more like saying the culture itself is an abstract machine: let's play.” (Miller/Lanier, 2006, 2:39)

34. Engage in multiple modes. Reattune through “ provenance .”

35. Resist boredom by playing with unexpected connections.

36. Thank you. Scott Reed Georgia Gwinnett College [email_address] @rhetoroxor on Twitter