Articles by Jonathan Gourlay

The Ghost in the Timeline

For Jonathan Gourlay, Facebook Timeline has turned his news feed into an online cemetery.

In the Land of the Non-Reader

Jonathan Gourlay stops reading books. This is what happens to him.

Fear and Gaming: The Child in the Tower

Jonathan Gourlay’s daughter has locked herself away, hidden from the dangers of the world, in Minecraft.

Fear and Gaming: Frequently Asked Existential and Snack-Food Related Questions in “The Witcher 2″

Parvulus Clamans (Jonathan Gourlay), a pitiable little man, pretends to be someone he is not and (of course!) fails.

Fear and Gaming: Crazy Train

Jonathan Gourlay loves every train, simulated or real, with the exception of the one in Atlas Shrugged.

Fear and Gaming: An Existential Psychoanalysis of a Yellow-Robed, Faceless Wizard

Jonathan Gourlay finds the notebooks of a character from Magicka and an existential psychoanalyst.

Fear and Gaming: Dork Adventurer

The Consolation of Philosophy: a text adventure by Jonathan Gourlay.

Fear and Gaming: Remembrance of Things Spewed

Jonathan Gourlay plays Bulletstorm, which causes an ejaculatory explosion of memories, nightmares, and Fox News pundits.

Fear and Gaming: Being and Nothingness and “Minecraft”

Jonathan Gourlay explores Minecraft, an ugly game with no point and endless possibility.

Fear and Gaming: Soldiers of Boredom

Playing a first-person shooter set in Vietnam, Jonathan Gourlay learns that he doesn’t have to take any responsibility for war, just like Senator Mitch McConnell.

Fear and Gaming: Muumuu

Jonathan Gourlay plays the game Braid, a platformer about time travel and regret.

To the Newbies, To Make Much of Time

Who needs Kierkegaard or Sartre when you have Civilization 5? Jonathan Gourlay thinks about videogames as modern philosophical texts.