Digital Bodies: essays on materials and craft 2012-2014

In the essays brought together here I unpick some of the ways that materiality, skill and identity shape the labour and leisure of games. The bodies I write about are sexy and revolting, moving constantly between pride and shame. The digital materiality I work with is dazzlingly new and burdened with history, a thing of fantasy and a mirror held up to realities that were felt before they were visualised.