YOUR PLACE OR MINECRAFT? #5 - Automating Death
This witty web series follows the virtual lives of a handful academics playing Minecraft together. An online adventure of fun, smarts and drama. In episode 5, darrenwershler (Darren Wershler) rebuilds the most beautiful gas station in the world to scale, and talks about what it means to do philosophy inside the machine. He also shows off his skeleton processor, and reflects upon the questions of sentimentality and ethics that arise in a world where all life can be processed cleanly into resources.
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The 'mLab server' is one of the most modded Minecraft servers in the world. But what makes it really special is that it is owned by academic game research centres of Concordia University where the players—students and professors—all work together in real life. Their real life friendships, objectives and conflicts result in fascinating, self-reflexive and sometimes explosive gameplay.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Darren Wershler is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature and Co-Director of the Media History Research Centre. He is currently writing THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (with Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson), and a book on Minecraft (with Bart Simon).
Your Place or Minecraft? is not an official Minecraft project, and is not associated with or endorsed by Mojang.