About Yaz Minsky

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Using video games to talk about art, culture, politics, and philosophy. Also other stuff.
https://twitter.com/Yaz_Minsky

Plague Art: Making Sense in the Midst of Death

What can the 16th-century Isenheim Altarpiece, Ice Pick Lodge's video game Pathologic 2, and Jonathan Glazer's short film Strasbourg 1518 tell us about this awful and frightening year? How can you engage with art in the midst of mass death, and what kind of art can make meaning of these conditions?…

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Animal Crossing and the Ideology of Chill

Animal Crossing is a relaxing game of normalcy and routine-- which makes it a perfect chance to examine what we actually consider to be normal, and why the things that feel like the everyday are still the results of decisions, ideologies, and worldviews. Works Cited Videos Folding Ideas, "Minecra…

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Christian Communist DESTROYS PragerU with FACTS and LOGIC

https://twitter.com/Yaz_Minsky https://ko-fi.com/yazminsky https://www.patreon.com/yazminsky A rebuttal of a PragerU video, a debunking of libertarian notions of property rights, and a discussion of Christian Socialism and 17th-century English anarchist farmers.

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