“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction…” –Donna Haraway (1991)

I have never been very attracted to video games. The last video game that I played for any period of time was Super Mario, and as far as I can recall, I never beat the game. So I surprised myself (and many other people in my life) when I recently invested in a Nintendo Wii. I picked out games and began playing. This has had an effect that I never considered before; I began to dream in video games.

What better way to inaugurate a new column than by making a broad, subjective claim about the largest shift in popular culture over the past ten years? This shift partially involves cultural artifacts so almost completely rendered obsolete that we may soon reach a point where a new generation of boob-tubers doubt they ever existed. Like any obsolete media that barely possesses even marginal kitsch or nostalgia factor (I’m looking at you 8-tracks), we’ll soon wonder why we ever put up with them. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m speaking of the television repeat.