Steven H Poole

Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution

The Edge calls Trigger Happy a "seminal piece of work." For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years...

Trigger Happy 2.0: The Art and Politics of Videogames

Why can’t a wargame be anti-war? Why does “gamification” spit on the downtrodden? And why do so many videogames take the form of boring jobs? Investigating the aesthetics, politics, and psychology of modern videogames, the mini-essays in this long-awaited follow-up to 2000's Trigger Happy are an edi...

Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

What do the phrases “pro-life,” “intelligent design,” and “the war on terror” have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them “evaluative-descriptive...

You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture

We have become obsessed by food: where it comes from, where to buy it, how to cook it and—most absurdly of all—how to eat it. Our televisions and newspapers are filled with celebrity chefs, latter-day priests whose authority and ambition range from the small scale (what we should have for supper) to...

Steven Poole

Steven Poole (born in 1972) is a British author and journalist. Contents. 1 Biography; 2 Books. 2.1 Trigger Happy; 2.2 Unspeak. 3 Journalism; 4 Media; 5 Other...

Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality