Archive - Fakepixels

[FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging

Even as migrants, we can feel local to many homes.

Apr 22, 2021 •

February 2021

[FKPXLS] The Illusions of Free-to-Play

From freemium products to open-source projects to marketplaces to UGC platforms, free-to-play games are already everywhere.

Feb 20, 2021 •

January 2021

[FKPXLS] Brave New Decade

The Brave New Decade will be about finally having the courage to confront ourselves as flawed humans as we are, and finding ourselves in one another.

Jan 1, 2021 •

November 2020

[FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: Embedded Education

Learning no longer lives on an individual platform. Rather, learning happens everywhere. We’re entering a new age of “Embedded Education”.

Nov 28, 2020 •

[FKPXLS] VOL.65 / Cutting down trees, just to plant new ones

The thought of deforestation or climate collapse never alarms anybody, as if it’s a myth told by some foreign deity.

Nov 16, 2020 •

[FKPXLS] VOL.64 / When gods are dead, we create new ones

When the temples are deserted by the gods, it’s when we see most clearly that gods are alive, and are among us.

Nov 1, 2020 •

October 2020

[FKPXLS] VOL.63 / You must be taught to love me

Only when we are physically strapped from actions that we fully realize the true extent and nature of our freedom and agency.

Oct 11, 2020 •

[FKPXLS] VOL.62 / Everything crumbles when we lose balance

When we decide to participate in a game, there is a set of explicit and implicit rules of the game that can make us forget why we decided to participate…

Oct 4, 2020 •

September 2020

[FKPXLS] VOL.61 / Not young enough to know everything

People talk about "turning points" in life. It never felt like so at the moment.

Sep 27, 2020 •

[FKPXLS] VOL.60 / Freedom that’s granted and freedom that’s earned

Freedom isn’t a human right conferred by mythical forces. Nor does the freedom to dream come at birth.

Sep 20, 2020 •

[FKPXLS] VOL.59 / Here I stand. I can do no other.

You will work diligently, that is, in hopes of being forgotten.

Sep 13, 2020 •

[FKPXLS] VOL.58 / Dance me to the end of love

Catachresis is when a statement is so astonishingly wrong that it feels right.

Sep 6, 2020 •

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