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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Choices – Episode 3 – Maguffin
Episode 3 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 21st May, 2014. Ainesh and Stillman attend a hipster funeral, where Stillman makes a horrible scene. Stillman is heartbroken over Emma Jane’s affair with Krisha. Natalie continues her persecution of Ainesh, as he begins his own expensive psychotherapy.… Read more
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Threat Detection – Episode 18 – Sex in Videogames (Part 1)
On this episode of our weekly videogame show Gareth & James discuss the steamy topic of sex in videogames. We delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? Is it possible for such a mainstream medium to deal with sex in an adult… Read more
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Threat Detection – Episode 17 – Horror in Games (Part 2)
Download: Threat Detection – Episode 17 Continuing from last weeks show, we chat about horror in video games. How does video game horror differ from movie horror, and how we can be horrified, now that we are so jaded. Read more
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Choices – Episode 2 – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Episode 2 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 14th May, 2014. Ainesh learns cushion counselling from his eccentric lecturer Sean. After Emma Jane’s flirtation makes him run for the safety of his cinema books, Stillman hassles him about getting a job. Ainesh starts to realise the… Read more
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Diaspora
Photograph: Patrick Comerford A poem of mine written many years ago, has been published. Diaspora is if anything more pertinent today than when I wrote it – in that horrendous exile between school and college, when progress seemed impossible. The piece has been published in the latest issue of This Is Not Where I Belong… Read more
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Choices – Episode 1 – The Hero’s Tale
Episode 1 of the brand new series from Dead Medium Productions and Dublin City FM. First broadcast 7th May, 2014. Ainesh Sharma is sacked from his minimum wage job for being a smart aleck, and is placed by the social welfare department in a course called ‘Choosing Therapy’ – a radical form of psychotherapy which… Read more
