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Storming the Ivory Tower
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Storming the Ivory Tower is a personal blog at stormingtheivorytower.com about culture, games and philosophy. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on culture of writing to support a point about 'visual literacy'. The post discusses how the Pacific Rim film's backstory was conveyed through production and character design.
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A blog of esoteric media criticism, laying siege to the Ivory Tower of academia from the gutters of pop culture
What Hacker News says?
Well, one angle is to qualify the use of the term "literacy", as in "visual literacy". Here is an article about the movie Pacific Rim that pointed out how much of the story (or rather, backstory) was visually communicated to audiences via production and character design in ways that entirely whoosh over the head of most viewers focused on dialog and acting: https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2013/07/the-visual-in…
Comment linking /2013/07/the-visual-intelligence-of-pacific-rim.html
on “Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)”Submitted The Next Homestuck Will Not Be Made in Flash (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Universal Paperclips, Clicker Games, AI, and Agency as a story · 1 points
HN discussion