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Category: left optimism
Toys or barbarism
A brief prologue to my keynote talk at the 15th Beyond Humanism conference at Paris 8 on 26th June. The title ‘Barbaric toys’ was…
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…
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,…
under the pebbles…
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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,…