tom boylston

like dianetics but for boylstons. thinking about addiction, games/play, value, immersion

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@KemtrupTweets Would it be so bad to be weird? Life is weird, I like psychoanalytic work because it’s the one place we have a chance of grasping that. The rest of the mental health world is so relentlessly norming

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

Getting affectively amped for our event on Friday with keynote by the great @ShirazHaderach and @ckunzelman
All welcome, eventbrite link below

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

Game Studies folk! We’re running our second online mini conference this Friday on affect and game time
All welcome, signup here
https://t.co/mSyTw8yimV
Hosted by me and @merlin_seller @EdCDCS

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

Game Studies folk! We’re running our second online mini conference this Friday on affect and game time
All welcome, signup here
https://t.co/mSyTw8yimV
Hosted by me and @merlin_seller @EdCDCS

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

Been working on this for a while, so happy to see it go live. With @merlin_seller , trying to bring together game scholars in Edinburgh

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@MyOwnVelouria @merlin_seller @EdCDCS Thanks for a brilliant paper. Can’t wait to see where this work goes

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@andrea_andiloro Great paper, totally persuasive. Thanks so much

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@haideraliakmal Fantastic, compelling paper. Thanks so much. Now I’m obsessing a bit what it’s like to be a smart toaster

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

This Friday!

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@Y2K_mindset @WokeBeyond W

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@deontologistics Now I’m wondering what would be an adequate theory of Habit for cognitive economics (Eve k Sedgwick says ‘habit’ gets us away from heroic addiction narratives and towards habitation, habitat etc)

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

Really great post from @deontologistics about the (deliberate?) cognitive cost of free choice

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

@cstross @LR_Lam On the assumption that information processing is free, and how it distorts all economic thinking (insofar as *cognitive resources* belong to the economy): https://t.co/Y6Naf2Bl4B

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@daily_barbarian See, ritual theory passim. Ritual doesn’t care what you believe (or if you even participate) so long as someone keeps doing the actions to a top p the world falling apart

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@daily_barbarian Or, we don’t actually need shared beliefs to coexist. Just shared projects

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@deontologistics Gregory Bateson would say, when it shortcuts a learning process

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@MCSanimal @BGSrunning @BGS_OBs @mphcrawley @BGSpolitics @Manics I missed this on the day but... thanks man

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@Loakers @Dayna_Dayna The window between 1 and 2 is exactly 3 seconds

[David Wengrow @davidwengrow]

Today is #CouncilsCan day, so also a good day to remember that - as far back as we can trace things, which is thousands of years - councils always could.

Rethinking cities, from the ground up https://t.co/5GMEmljB9T

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@daily_barbarian @im_1776 Incidentally, some of the earliest writing was creating external authority through contrived randomness (Chinese state divination, and basically all divination thereafter)

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@daily_barbarian @im_1776 “They allow a society to offload responsibility for what befalls it onto a transcendent power equivalent to fate” - increasingly ‘the algorithm’ is emerging as surrogate for fate

[tom boylston @boylstonetics]

@daily_barbarian @im_1776 Meaning critics of algorithmic power are contributing to deification of tech as much as it’s proponents