GABRIEL WIDING

Tag: politics

  • Excerpts on exhaustion

    Copyriot quite recently proposed a general theory of exhaustion. Well, would it be possible, or make anything clearer, to make a connection between peak oil and brain drain in relation to present day crisis capitalism? Here goes some excerpts on exhaustion, in order to make to put our cognitive capacities to work… exhaustion |igˈzôs ch…

  • Notes from a seminar with Francesco ‘Bifo’Berardi

    Some notes from a seminar at Doch Stockholm March 29 – April 1, 2010 Origin from the italian autonomia movement the media activist and political theorist Bifo has a formulated a question that activates philosophical as well as psychological concerns: Is it possible, under present conditions, to form a collective process of subjectivation? So what…

  • The Character, the Player and Their Shared Body

    The article is written by Gabriel Widing & Tova Gerge, published in Role, Play, Art, edited by Thorbiörn Fritzon and Tobias Wrigstad,  in conjunction with the 10th Knutpunkt Convention in Sweden, 2006. What happens to our bodies when we give them to characters and place them in new environments and situations? Where do these memories…

  • Post Panopticon

    This was my first text published in english and it has some weak parts but I’ve left it unchanged. It was published in the anthology Beyond role and play, edited by Montola & Stenroos in 2004. Analysing live action role-playing has always been problematic. The subjectivity of every experience makes the personal reflection a lame…