Queer Fallout

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises tha...

Queer Families

In December 2005, an appeals court in New York State ruled “that the state constitution does not require New York to treat gay couples the same as heterosexual couples in marriage licensing” (Keen 11). The ongoing gay marriage debate has set the stage for many lesbians, gays, and queers to ask what marriage equality really means for the gay movement. According to Michael Warner in the book The ...

Player Profiling with Fallout

In previous research we concluded that a personality profile, based on the Five Factor Model, can be constructed from observations of a player’s behavior in a module that we designed for Neverwinter Nights (Lankveld et al. 2011a). In the present research, we investigate whether we can do the same thing in an actual modern commercial video game, in this case the game Fallout 3. We stored automat...

Fallout FALLOUT FORECASTS IN SURFACE AND UNDER WATER BURSTS

‘The increased efficiency with which superweapons disperse radioactive materials is to some extent counter-acted by the delay in arrival of fallout from the high source cloud and the rapid rate of decay which occurs in the interim.’ – R.L. Stetson, E.A. Schuert, W.W. Perkins, T.H. Shirasawa, and H.K. Chan, Distribution and Intensity of Fallout, Operation Castle, Project 2.5a, U.S. Naval Radiolo...

' ~ Speaking in Queer Tongues