Alexander Ross

@alexross73

Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.

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Alexander Ross@alexross73· 5d

Watching Xenaero deathmatch Romero at QuakeCon.

Stop stop he's already dead from The Simpsons in relation to Romero deathmatching at QuakeCon.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· 6d

I can't get over how deranged these Looney Tunes AI slop memes are. What is even going on here?

Deranged Facebook AI slop meme of various Looney Tunes characters being patriotic for some reason.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· 7d

Catching up with an old friend...

Alexander Ross@alexross73· 8d

Did Bugs Bunny really say this???

Low quality meme image from Facebook with Bugs Bunny saying "Do something right and no one remembers. Do something wrong and no one forgets." In the bottom right corner it says Just for Jokes and Fun.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· 26d

RETVRN

Awesome alien from Black Hole Planet 3 in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Apr 28

Hey everyone! Just a reminder that me and @thechristinet.bsky.social are running a games panel about refusing & resisting reactionary technopolitics!! Only two days left to send in your abstracts. Feel free to share with your games academic pals!

Is the only winning move not to play? Refusing & Resisting the Reactionary Technopolitics of games. Open panel - abstracts due by April 30!

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Apr 27

Here's the full comment for people who want to see how unhinged it gets.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Apr 25

Toronto has Hexen fever! Everyone here is obsessed with obscure switch hunts!

Text on the street saying Hexen Never Gonna Die.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Apr 21

Planning to go to 4S in TORONTO this October? Study GAMES? Then you should apply for this open panel put together by me and @thechristinet.bsky.social. Abstracts due April 30!

Is the only winning move not to play? Refusing and Resisting the Reactionary Technopolitics of Games. 4S Toronto 50th anniversary conference. Open panel. Submit your abstract by April 30!

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Apr 12

Hi everyone! For any academics who follow me here: @thechristinet.bsky.social and I are running an open panel on video games + technopower for the 4S conference in Toronto this year and we are looking for abstracts! Here is our call for abstracts below!

Short text from 2nd paragraph: digital workers, creators, and audiences alike are called to play games structured by capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and other oppressive systems that overdetermine who has real agency or power. These problematic playsites have also
emerged as fields of contestation and alterity, from trans and queer speedrunning leagues (Brewer, 2023) to multiplatform networks for Black feminist resistance to toxic technoculture that provides its own grammar of play (Gray, 2020; Fletcher, 2022). Thus, we
ask how we can use games to speculate on or build better futures separate from systems of
validation, authentication, datafied/ commodified extraction and their patriarchal, colonial,
and racialized epistemes. How does studying games as physical and rhetorical assemblages
help us (or perhaps even hinder) us in this task? Perhaps the only winning move is not to
play.

Our panel aims to encourage a multidisciplinary approach, and we will ask for contributions from STS, game studies, platform studies, media studies/media theory, political economy, creator studies, feminist media analysis, decolonizing play, and other critical approaches. Games are highly integrated into life, work, and leisure, and many are called upon, against their will, to become players. Rather than celebrating the masterful player/designer of games, our panel wants to aim to better critique how games move through, within, and are supported by technoscience and technopolitics.

More questions? Reach out to Alexander Ross, University of British Columbia alexander.ross@ubc.ca or Christine H. Train Alberta University of The Arts, christine.tran@auarts.ca.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Feb 17

A paragraph like this definitely gives me pause.

An oddly worded paragraph about Nishnawbe Aski Nation that potentially bears the hallmarks of GenAI writing.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Dec 8

It's that time of year again... #DoomXmas #DOSember

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Dec 5

Cool stage!

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Dec 5

Currently seated for A John Waters Christmas at the Rio! Can't wait!

A poster that says John Waters Christmas Live! and depicts a zombie John Waters eating the head of Santa.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Nov 28

It's time to begin my now annual playthrough of unhinged Christmas games and mods. Screens from H2H-Xmas (1995) for Doom II. #Doom #Xmas #DOScember

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Aug 30

Thinking about this for some reason.

Sign from The Simpsons saying "Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet."

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Aug 28

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Jul 20

Still think this is one of the funniest images of all time.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· May 18

Currently seated for at the Cinematheque in Vancouver.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· May 4

Four favourite films of the decade so far.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Mar 26

This passage made me sit up and gasp. Why would you use the 60s scoop and residential schools - an act of cultural genocide and violence against Indigenous peoples- as the background for a cozy little orphanage fantasy?

Excerpt from essay in Typebar Magazine criticizing cozy fiction. This excerpt reveals that TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea was inspired by the 60s Scoop, an act of genocide against Indigenous peoples.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Mar 8

"Bill, all I'll say to the young men is this: you don't want the Professor showing up to your door, bothering Mom and Dad..."

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Feb 7

Amazing that this joke has only aged like fine wine.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Feb 7

Twin Peaks is a show that contains multitudes.

Ben Horne in a track suit showing off the pine weasel.

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Feb 4

US institutions sleepwalking into disaster.

Image from Notes on The Crisis blog post where a federal IT employee describes read and write access to sensitive Treasury systems as "apocalyptic."

Alexander Ross@alexross73· Jan 16

Outside Carlton Cinema in Toronto, Ontario. David Lynch 1946-2025.