Simon Ferrari

Georgia Institute of Technology

GeorgiaUnited States

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Anatomy of the Perfect Clip

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Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

July 03, 2013
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Anatomy of the Perfect Clip YouTubers League of Legends eSports Curator's Note Okay, I'll admit it, Gangplank (the pirate) and Alistar (the bull) are unlikely lane partners. Some might point out that it's probably staged (look how Gangplank ...
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The Flourish

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Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

December 06, 2010
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The Flourish street fighter procedural rhetoric e-sports Curator's Note Debates rage about the social and political functions of videogames. Videogames allow us to enter the bodies and minds of virtual others, explore worlds that exist only in the im ...

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Re: The Flourish

re: rules

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Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 — 6:49 am
Brad, All three authors you mention are tremendous influences on my writing on procedural rhetoric (not in this piece pe se, though). Some of the first people I knew who got really into the idea of procedural rhetoric were law students, and they visited G ...
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Re: The Flourish

Re: The Rhetoric of Fairness

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Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

Monday, December 6, 2010 — 11:01 pm
Ken, Thank you for helping me puzzle some of this out! Indeed, this post was shaped significantly by my introductory adventures into reading up on the philosophy of sport. One of the things that poked out at me was what I saw as something that belonged mo ...