Eric Stein / Writing

Questions

2025-10-20 Philosophical Close Reading

Field Notes, 3

2025-07-10 Theory of Priority

Intermezzo

2025-06-10 In Search of a Distant Light
2025-05-05 Interactive Storytelling
2024-07-24 The Lived Politics of the Negative
2024-06-15 Dreams of Extraction
2023-09-16 Determined Figures
2023-06-29 Arcane Procedures
2023-06-18 A Model of Actions
2023-05-26 We Can Always Play Backgammon

Ludology, Perhaps

2024-07-07 Indoor Dog, Outdoor World
2024-05-25 The Author Is Alive and Wants to Sell You Books
2023-04-24 AFK

Juvenilia, 3

2023-06-06 Beasts and Sovereigns
2023-05-26 Imagined Agency
2023-05-16 Tactile Thematics, 2
2022-09-21 Mechanics of Speculation
2022-08-29 Being Meat
2022-08-26 Production and Pedagogy
2022-07-28 Play to Lose
2022-01-19 A Wonderfully Inconsistent Being
2021-08-05 No Dice, No Masters
2021-05-28 Bodies in Form, 2
2021-04-10 From Governance to Planning
2021-03-12 It’s More Like a Tendency
2021-03-11 Joyful Study
2020-10-23 The Dark Sigil Will Guide Thee
2020-08-28 It Can’t Be For Nothing
2020-06-19 Pure Vessels
2020-06-03 Praise the Sun
2020-03-19 The Fire Fades
2020-02-19 Tactile Thematics
2019-04-13 Bodies in Form
2019-04-06 The Torqued Horizon
2019-03-09 Thoreau’s Cabin
2017-03-23 Narratives of Blood

Field Notes, 2

2023-04-21 Reality and Determination
2022-06-19 Compost Epistemology
2022-05-23 Dying Well, 2
2022-05-14 Dying Well
2022-04-27 Logic of Scission
2021-07-26 The Idea of the Gamer, 5
2021-07-19 Sophistics
2021-07-03 Pure Indetermination, 2
2021-07-01 The Idea of the Gamer, 4
2021-06-10 Generic Science, 4
2021-06-09 Recombinatorics
2021-05-30 The Idea of the Gamer, 3
2021-04-28 The Idea of the Gamer, 2
2021-04-26 Combinatorics
2021-04-25 Generic Science, 3
2021-04-12 Generic Science, 2
2021-03-28 Generic Science
2021-03-25 The Idea of the Gamer
2021-03-05 Pure Indetermination
2021-02-25 Being and Motion
2021-02-10 Ludic Philosophy, 2
2020-05-29 Teaching for Food, 2
2020-05-29 The System of Whiteness
2020-04-17 Uncanny Knowledges, 3
2020-01-21 Uncanny Knowledges, 2
2019-10-28 Genichiro
2019-08-20 Uncanny Knowledges
2019-06-14 Exscription
2019-06-13 Temporality, World, Enframing
2019-05-28 Chasm, 3
2019-02-25 Ludic Philosophy
2019-01-29 Theory-Fiction
2019-01-15 Chasm, 2
2019-01-08 Chasm
2018-12-03 Being-Sent, 2
2018-12-02 Being-Sent
2018-04-20 Teaching for Food
2017-03-29 Figures of Dune, 2
2017-03-29 Figures of Dune

Excurses, 3

2023-04-10 Spring Cleaning
2023-03-01 Radical Futures
2023-01-23 Eagle
2023-01-01 Ring Fit
2022-11-30 Star Citizen
2022-11-27 Weather Balloons
2022-11-16 Liftoff
2022-11-12 The Hollow Crown
2022-11-03 The Peripheral
2022-11-01 Games In Action
2022-10-30 Monstress and Saga
2022-10-18 Morrowind
2022-09-18 Train Burglaries
2022-09-17 Scale Relativity
2022-09-16 Zettelkasten
2022-09-15 Awareness Contexts
2022-09-14 Bridge Laws
2022-09-13 Art and Space
2022-09-12 Destroy This Computer
2022-09-11 Become Mud
2022-09-10 Kolyuchin Island
2022-09-09 Numbers and Games
2022-09-06 Jupiter
2022-08-02 Universal Design
2022-07-30 Artemis
2022-07-29 Generation Analog
2022-07-19 Numeration
2022-07-16 Journal, Now, Play to Lose
2022-07-15 Rain
2022-07-14 Corridors and More
2022-07-13 Hello, World!

Vagrant Ludology

2021-08-20 Concrete Rules
2021-06-09 Utopics
2021-05-29 Method
2021-04-22 Fear of Play
2021-03-28 Earth Without Us
2021-03-05 The Last Tree
2021-02-18 A Game, Perhaps
2021-02-07 Chasm
2021-01-31 Dead Letters
2021-01-09 Notoriously Frivolous
2020-11-28 Living Failures
2020-11-17 Silent Prayer
2020-11-15 Lovepunk
2020-11-02 Jam Session
2020-10-15 Useless Passions
2020-09-15 Good Exercise
2020-08-10 Metanarrative
2020-07-31 Among Farmers
2020-06-30 Stay
2020-01-15 Moonfall
2019-11-18 Advent
2019-10-14 umbral / rhizome
2019-09-26 Hollow Machines
2019-08-03 Affinity

Zine Quest

2021-03-15 Skin and Stars
2021-03-06 Buffering
2021-02-02 Glitchspiel
2020-02-26 Lost Scriptures

Theses

2018-09-26 Fiction in the Integrated Circuit
2015-04-28 Narratives of Blood

Excurses, 2

2018-03-28 Against Narrative Time
2017-12-06 Sightlessness and Star Trek: Discovery
2017-11-22 LOCALHOST
2017-10-11 Time and the iPhone
2017-03-29 Logan and the Figure of Love
2017-01-25 Rebel Dreams
2016-12-28 The Fear of the Human
2016-10-19 The Sequel as Myth
2016-10-05 The Spectacle of Stranger Things

Juvenilia, 2

2017-12-14 The Problem of World, 4
2017-12-09 The Problem of World, 3
2017-12-04 The Problem of World, 2
2017-12-02 The Problem of World, 1
2017-11-17 Being Planetary
2017-10-16 Navigating Spectrality
2017-10-15 The Scientific Conception of the World
2017-10-06 The Womb and the Cave
2017-10-06 The Sovereignty of the Subject
2017-08-31 The Problem of Signification
2017-08-29 The World of Meaning
2017-08-21 Benveniste’s Linguistic Universe
2017-08-14 Resituating Meaning
2017-08-14 Being and Time, 4
2017-08-07 The Logo-Technics of Semiology
2017-08-07 Being and Time, 3
2017-07-31 Hjelmslev
2017-07-24 Relation over Substance
2017-05-12 Being and Time, 2
2017-04-27 Being and Time, 1
2017-04-19 The Spirit of History
2017-04-19 Substance and Spirit
2017-04-12 The Zoopolitical Imagination
2017-04-04 Thoreau’s Cabin
2017-04-03 The Machiavelli Variations
2017-03-15 The Machiavellian Challenge
2017-02-23 Muir’s Yosemite
2017-02-15 Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche
2016-12-14 The Demand of the Text
2016-11-21 Three Figures
2016-11-16 The Responsibility of Freedom
2016-11-07 The Practice of Love
2016-10-26 Fields of Knowing
2016-10-17 The Necessity of Nothing
2016-09-12 The Commitment of Understanding

Excurses, 1

2017-01-19 Of Vengeance
2016-07-15 Stuck in the System
2016-06-27 Fragments
2016-06-06 The Doing of Mercy
2016-06-01 The People vs. Frank Castle
2016-05-29 The Practice of Etymology
2016-05-29 Philosophy, Necessity, Reality
2016-01-25 The Concept as Method
2016-01-25 Beginnings
2015-09-05 System Failure
2015-08-30 When the Lights Go Out

Juvenilia, 1

2015-12-03 Absolute Particularity
2015-12-01 Speaking Double
2015-08-10 Trauma and Remembrance
2015-04-13 Freedom, Difference, and Public Space
2014-12-05 The Masochist’s Theatre
2014-11-27 Identity and (Un)knowing
2014-10-30 A Structural Study of Canadian Myth
2014-09-29 Pretty Pretty Pretty
2014-03-20 The Wolf and the Whale
2013-11-24 Rhetoric and Ritual

Field Notes, 1

2015-07-20 Finality
2015-07-17 A Matter of Scale, pt. 2
2015-07-16 A Matter of Scale, pt. 1
2015-07-15 Les Remises
2015-07-14 Reading and Resonance
2015-07-11 Nada y Pues Nada
2015-07-04 On the Beyond
2015-06-30 Permanence
2015-06-25 Impermanence
2015-06-21 In the Garden of the Dead
2015-06-16 Typification / Representation
2015-06-13 The Weight of Freedom
2015-06-06 So I Ate Guinea Fowl the Other Day
2015-06-01 Adventures in (Un)translation
2015-05-29 All That I Have Met
2015-05-23 The Field and the Other
2015-05-16 Field, Meaning, Relation
2015-05-13 Nostalgia and Historicity