July | 2016 | ReMAP

Panopticon Pandemonium game released!

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Andrew Burn Leave a comment

Panopticon Pandemonium: bringing to life Jeremy Bentham’s controversial, unrealised prison. Download the game free, and play it! For around a decade of his life until 1803, the renowned English philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) lobbied the British government to build a ‘panopticon’ prison of his design. Bentham had envisaged an ‘Inspection House’—a circular building with the prisoners’ cells arranged

Re-program, Re-play, Re-wind

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Andrew Burn Leave a comment

‘Re-program, re-play, rewind: an alternative history of computer game creation in 1980s Britain’ is an AHRC early career fellowship award (2016-2017) that will examine the role of type-in computer program listings found in magazines and books during the 1980s. The project is collecting oral histories and interviews with people who wrote and used program listings for the various microcomputers that