Alfie Bown

'Post-Comedy'

Bog | Engelsk

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued.At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal culture from which friendship, camaraderie and solidar

'The PlayStation Dreamworld'

Bog | Engelsk

From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames v