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Vivek Santayana


Doctoral Candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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Tag Archives: Nerd Culture

A Natural 20 Performance: When a Dungeons & Dragons Session Becomes Sheer Brilliance

20 Wednesday Feb 2019

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Dungeons & Dragons, Fan Culture, Nerd Culture, Parody, Star Wars

A recap of a recnet D&D session in which we went very much off the rails and parodied Star Wars and Star Wars fandom alike, in a story that truly exemplified performative sympoesis.

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Conpulsion Conspiracy 2018

16 Monday Apr 2018

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Conpulsion, Conpulsion Conspiracy 2018, Nerd Culture, Table-Top Roleplaying Games

This weekend, I was at Conpulsion, Scotland’s biggest and oldest RPG convention. While I was there, I had a wonderful experience running and playing games, and thinking deeply about the social significance of such games.

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A World of One’s Making: Table-Top Roleplaying Games and Nerd Culture

16 Friday Mar 2018

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Fan Culture, Fan Labour, Geek Culture, Henry Jenkins, J.R.R. Tolkien, Nerd Culture, Participation Culture, Table-Top Roleplaying Games

A couple of weeks ago, I got talked into trying out table-top pen-and-paper fantasy roleplaying games (in the vein of Dungeons and Dragons, but not quite the same). This post is a reflection of my experience of this kind of roleplaying, the meaning of nerd culture and how easy it is for a PhD student to belong amongst fellow nerds.

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