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My book Toy Theory, held open at a page featuring an image of a Pop doll version of Buzz Lightyear as 'Mrs Nesbit' in Toy Story.

read me!

Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 By sethgiddings

Nearly all of my publications are freely available, either open access or in ‘author’s version’ format. Please see the Publications page. And do get…

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Photograph of me delivering my talk. I'm sitting at a desk and a behind me is projected two images of cuddly toys in the rubble of Gaza and one of Pedro Pascal wearing a t-shirt with the slogan 'Protect the Dolls.'

Toys or barbarism

Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 By sethgiddings

A brief prologue to my keynote talk at the 15th Beyond Humanism conference at Paris 8 on 26th June. The title ‘Barbaric toys’ was…

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a new thread

Posted on September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

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the city is already a playground

Posted on June 25, 2019September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

The city is already a playground. Creative projects to turn urban spaces into playful installations or events are often predicated on the implicit assumption…

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protopolitics of play

Posted on May 3, 2018September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

The mobilisation in and as play of relationships of control and passivity, of playing by the rules and resisting, distorting or simply ignoring them,…

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under the pebbles…

Posted on April 6, 2018September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

Copied here to avoid unnecessary clicks for the Mail Online: ‘If these are top academics God help our students’: ANDREW PIERCE slams the ‘senior’…

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Animal Crossing economics

Posted on April 12, 2014September 23, 2021 By sethgiddings

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,…

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