Category: Guerilla Criticism

• Friendslop = Friendless<<Slop>> Or: Will We Ever Lock Eyes When We Play Again?

  

  Without humanist intent friendslop is the Ghost of Play’s Past. It is the Ghost of Play’s Present. It is the Ghost of Play Never to Come.

  Aguas’ Points

  August 3, 2026

  Guerilla Criticism, Method

  Chinatown Fair, Fredric Jameson, Friendslop, Gamespace, McKenzie Wark, Pokémon GO, Pong, Video Game Criticism

• It’s Dangerous to Go Alone

  

  For Falangists to be slayed, ego must die. We are still living through a specific paradoxical, absurd and idiotic malice that inflected our discourse. If writers want to properly report on the Falangists, they should not do so in isolation.

  Aguas’ Points

  March 13, 2024

  Guerilla Criticism, Update

  Ariel Dorfman, Critical Distance, GamerGate, SEO, Video Game Criticism, Video Game Journalism

• Zelda Breath of Time: Preparing for a Critique of Tears of the Kingdom

  

  Spoiler: do not expect a consumer product report of Tears of the Kingdom.

  Aguas’ Points

  April 30, 2023

  Guerilla Criticism, Method, Not A Review

  Bonnie Ruberg, Fred Moten, Henry Jenkins, Patrick Klepek, Stefano Harney, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, The Undercommons

• In Agreement with No Escape: Towards a Guerrilla Criticism

  

  Oligopolies create a contradiction within the system. In this contradiction is where guerilla critics live.

  Aguas’ Points

  April 9, 2023

  Guerilla Criticism, Update

  BISR, ChatGPT, Criticism, Disney, IGN, let people enjoy things, No Escape, Video Games Criticism