In this short essay collection, Simon Bowie presents three meditations on the link between time and trauma in three contemporary television series: Twin Peaks: The Return, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Watchmen. In particular, the book looks at how psychological trauma is often linked to non-linear representations or conceptions of time; how…[Read more]

This article performs a posthumanist reading of Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital, 2019) focusing on how the game represents posthuman subjectivity. Outer Wilds uses two alien species to represent two conceptions of subjectivity: a transhumanism focused on technological augmentation of the human, and a posthumanism focused on decentring the human…[Read more]

This dissertation examines how contemporary indie video games use elements of the Weird as part of a post-ironic, New Sincerity aesthetic. By comparing three contemporary indie games against earlier cinema and television texts, I argue that over the past decade of the 2010s indie games boom video games emerged as an important medium in the…[Read more]