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12/24/2002 Archived Entry: "C.O.R.P.S.E."
Very interesting looking game project that has received funding via the Daniel Langlois Foundation (2002) - subversive collective ®™ark is producing a game called C.O.R.P.S.E. (Corporate Organism Replication and Patterning in a Simulated Ecosystem).
According to the FDL website: "Within the playful world of C.O.R.P.S.E., participants will apply laws that regulate the evolution of fictional biological entities that are metaphorically associated with the operations of a company. As in other artificial life games that allow players to change the attributes of the characters and their environment and then watch how the system evolves, C.O.R.P.S.E. will serve as a home laboratory for creating an alternative economic model. Players will be able to observe the effects of their regulatory choices on the evolution of their virtual ecosystems, and thus visualize the effects of similar actions in real-world socio-economics." The proposal was submitted by Ray Thomas, one of the core members of the collective.
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This would be a good example of configuring as a mode of rhetorical analysis [1]. Rather than a model *of* experience, this is a model *for* experience. Through the biological analogy, rTMark attempts to use the contour of a similar interaction to suggest how specific instances might work. It will be interesting to see what rhetorical assumtions are implicit in this transfer.
[1] Sosnoski, James J. "Configuration as a Mode of Rhetorical Analysis." Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. ed. Jones, Steve. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, 1999.
Posted by Cindy @ 12/27/2002 02:10 AM EST
I know this is a long shot but I'm looking for an old friend named Derek Vanderveer if by any chance you know him, could you get him to contact me. thank-you in advance.
Posted by Mark Etwell @ 01/09/2003 10:05 AM EST
I'll look into it, although I'm pretty sure Derek's made *all* his friends in the last month... ;-)
...OK, there we go, I've sent him a note...
Posted by Cindy @ 01/09/2003 05:06 PM EST