Papers by Edwin Lo
This article aims to explore and expand the notion of Don Ihde's technological view. With his ref... more This article aims to explore and expand the notion of Don Ihde's technological view. With his reflections on the music production and recording practice, this article constitutes analysis of phonograph in different historical and cultural context. In the later part of this article, we will address two more recording technology in the discussion of how technology shaping our mediation of the world when we are perceiving sound and music. This article also tries to explore different level of the discussions in the production of recording practice with the theoretical framework of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as well. With these analysis and reflections, this article aims at constituting the expansion of Ihde's technological discussion on music and its production.
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In 2013, independent game studio Red Barrels released their first game Outlast (2013). It is a re... more In 2013, independent game studio Red Barrels released their first game Outlast (2013). It is a remarkable survival horror game with first person perspective. Since the release of the game, Outlast has been one of the important horror games in game industry. With the success of Outlast in 2013, the game company also released an expansion pack based on the original game, Outlast: Whistleblower (2014) and Outlast 2 (2017) is now in production. In fact, Outlast series is not only conveys its unique position as horror game in game industry, but it also has pushed first person perspective game to a new level. The success of Outlast series manifested some curial philosophical and phenomenological dimensions of computer game. These perspectives are related to the how we can conceive game as the ground of thinking our existence, perception and our body. AVATAR, BODY, PERCEPTIONS Without any hesitation, Outlast truly presents a horrified and scariest playing experiences. In this game, the player plays as the role of Miles Upshur who is a journalist investigating the facilities of an asylum. Throughout the game, the player searches for the truth and the way out for escaping the asylum after the player realizing himself in the great danger. Unlike other first person perspective game like Doom series or Call of Duty series (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016), Outlast is not presented as first-person shooter but as first person survival game. The player cannot confront with the enemies at all and without any acquisition of weapons throughout the game, you have to run and hide. The player has to witness all of the events such as getting killed and tortured by enemies and experience the game play from the first person perspective.
The departure of this short essay is the discussion of Ina Bogost's procedural rhetoric. With ada... more The departure of this short essay is the discussion of Ina Bogost's procedural rhetoric. With adapting the example of the award wining game Papers, Please (2013), the discussions of the concept of procedural rhetoric will be articulated. From the perspective of procedural rhetoric and also simulation, this short essay discusses different dimensions of procedural rhetoric in terms of reality, possibility space, the question of morality. From the discussions of these points, the question of procedural rhetoric is expand into the embodiment and habit as well as the concept of milieu.
This article aims to explore and expand the notion of Don Ihde's technological view. With his ref... more This article aims to explore and expand the notion of Don Ihde's technological view. With his reflections on the music production and recording practice, this article constitutes analysis of phonograph in different historical and cultural context. In the later part of this article, we will address two more recording technology in the discussion of how technology shaping our mediation of the world when we are perceiving sound and music. This article also tries to explore different level of the discussions in the production of recording practice with the theoretical framework of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as well. With these analysis and reflections, this article aims at constituting the expansion of Ihde's technological discussion on music and its production.
With different forms of games, there is different type of cheating in the game play. Cheating as ... more With different forms of games, there is different type of cheating in the game play. Cheating as one of the important issues of video game, it brings out different discussions on how the game changed and the changes on how players play the game. In this essay, we will have the overview of how different scholar in game studies thinks about the cheating in the game. Then, we will go through different types and levels of cheating and we will also discuss how cheat affect how we perceive the game and what afterwards happened after the application of cheat.
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