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Nick Irving

The 25mm problem

Phone photography and tourism

6 min readMar 27, 2024

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The 25mm problem

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Nick Irving

“No More Hiroshimas”

The strange politics of memorialising the A-Bomb

15 min readDec 20, 2022

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“No More Hiroshimas”

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Nick Irving

Five things survival games need to stop doing

I spent most of lockdown playing survival games with friends. After two years of the most intensive game playing of my life, here’s my…

7 min readJul 13, 2022

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Five things survival games need to stop doing

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Nick Irving

Paywalls and Peer Review

How the Academy does and does not govern truth

7 min readMay 12, 2022

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Paywalls and Peer Review

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Intersectionality and Input

What happens when ideas escape the ivory tower

7 min readMar 26, 2022

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Intersectionality and Input

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We need to Memorialise the Pandemic

The case for a COVID Memorial Day

8 min readNov 3, 2021

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We need to Memorialise the Pandemic

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Evangelion, Anime, and ‘Sexualisation’ as Moral Panic

The grey area between objectifying text and sexualising viewer

16 min readOct 3, 2021

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Evangelion, Anime, and ‘Sexualisation’ as Moral Panic

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Nick Irving

“They” will never let you stop working

but who are “they,” exactly?

5 min readMar 31, 2021

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“They” will never let you stop working

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Every game is a simulation

and that may be playing a part in narrowing the political imagination of gamers.

9 min readMar 29, 2021

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Every game is a simulation

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Video games are just work

Why are a non-trivial number of gamers happy to spend their limited leisure time simulating other people’s jobs?

9 min readMar 21, 2021

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Video games are just work

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Nick Irving

Nick Irving

PhD in Modern History and government functionary. One-time historian of peace and protest, now researching and writing about work.

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