In Nguyen’s book, “Games: Agency as Art,” a core insight is that we’re not simply playing these games — they are playing us, too. Our desires, motivations and behaviors are constantly being shaped and reshaped by incentives and systems that we aren’t even aware of. Whether on the internet or in the vast bureaucracies that structure our lives, we fi... See more

No wonder we keep turning again to chance-producing tools – dice, cards, roulette wheels, astrology and the I Ching – in order to let off steam, get out of our own heads and perhaps provide alternative narratives to a sterile, decomplexified, abstract world, one created apparently and occasionally for our benefit, but in actuality to stupefy us, ex

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