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Phantasmagoria & technicity

Posted on December 5, 2018January 10, 2019 By sethgiddings

Resources and links for my talk at the Cologne Games Lab 5th December 2018. I’ll work this up into a full post with the slides soon:

bad play and phantasmagoria (extract from Gameworlds: virtual media and children’s everyday play)

Bright bricks dark play draft: on the impossibility of studying LEGO (from Mark J.P. Wolf (ed.) LEGO Studies, New York: Routledge 2014.

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