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: : : 001: MY NAME IS MAUREEN CLARK—Clark—and I work as an Associate Editor for the Hannen Publishing Group.
002: We publish regional interest magazines and brochures which provide a range of unique marketing opportunities for your business or attraction blah blah blah.
003: I brought a copy of one of them, if you want to see.
004: Hang on, let me just— [rummaging]
005: Here you go. This is our flagship publication, Illinois Today! Take a look. You will learn that Illinois is the home to many fine historical attractions and golf courses. [laughs]
006: I have no idea who might possibly come to Illinois to golf.
007: I don't know. It's OK. It's a job. It's not like working in a diamond mine in Sierra Leone or some maquiladora or anything.
008: Well, no—I mean, factchecking these things isn't exactly praxis, but—hey. My last job wasn't exactly riddled with opportunities for praxis either.
009: Uh, writing scripts for an Internet videogame company.
010: It went out of business; what do you think?
011: Yeah, I never would have thought that I'd look back on it and say man, that was so late 90s. [laughs]
012: I guess I get praxis most from my activist work.
013: I help out a bit with one of the community groups out here. A couple of hours a month is all. I'd like to do more, but—
014: Uh, you know, calling people up to get them to come to rallies. Stuffing envelopes. I mean, it's the same kind of work that you'd do at a job-type job, really, only in this context it's for something that I believe in, and that makes it different.
015: Social justice.
016: Uh, when the last priest is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat. [laughs]
017: No, I'm only kidding. It's not really a question of how you know when you've achieved it. Because you can't really ever achieve it. Not fully. That's why it's important to do the work.
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Further Reading:
Recent input in the Narrative Technologies weblog:
:: Towards a Methodology For Producing Internet Games : by David Mark Glassborow
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