the city is already a playground
The city is already a playground. Creative projects to turn urban spaces into playful installations or events are often predicated on the implicit assumption that the city is not already playful. That urban centres are cold, alienated places just waiting for artists, architects, designers and cultural producers to bring their creativity and imagination to bring […] more…
protopolitics of play
The mobilisation in and as play of relationships of control and passivity, of playing by the rules and resisting, distorting or simply ignoring them, of social hierarchies that might be inverted or reinforced in any particular game… a dreamlike fluidity of power relationships evident in the medieval carnival and the… something else. Not immediately recuperated […] more…
under the pebbles…
Copied here to avoid unnecessary clicks for the Mail Online: ‘If these are top academics God help our students’: ANDREW PIERCE slams the ‘senior’ dons who penned a letter condemning the media’s treatment of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail PUBLISHED: 01:14, 6 April 2018 | UPDATED: 10:10, 6 April 2018 Just as Jeremy Corbyn was on […] more…
Animal Crossing economics
The clock and the world’s temporality in Animal Crossing are completely integral. The clock isn’t a measure of time, but virtual time’s arrow itself, driving forward the events, economies and relationships, not just ticking along beside them. The game has some elaborate measures built into its fiction to avoid temporal paradox, manipulation, or collapse. For […] more…
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