Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
Mason Andrew Hamberlinclereviewofbooks.com
Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
«Writing as pollinating», a conversation with Alice Bucknell
Anthony Van Den Bosschehodlerprize.substack.com
A game tells us to take up a particular goal. It designates abilities for us to use in pursuing that goal. It packages all that up with a set of obstacles, crafted to fit those goals and abilities. A game uses all these elements to sculpt a form of activity. And when we play games, we take on an alternate form of agency. We take on new goals and ac
... See moreC. Thi Nguyen • Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
We do not fit this world comfortably. The obstacles in our path are often intractable, exhausting, or miserable. Games can be an existential balm for our practical unease with the world. In games, the problems can be right-sized for our capacities; our in-game selves can be right-sized for the problems; and the arrangement of self and world can mak
... See moreC. Thi Nguyen • Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
C. THI NGUYEN: But I think the most important thing about games is the way they manipulate our agency. The way we enter into this alternate self. And that’s I think where you can see the greatest power of games and their greatest danger. The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of... See more
C. Thi Nguyen • Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways?
