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Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
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)
The point of a game is to enter into a small world that is an escape from our everyday life. It’s a challenging but captivating diversion. We can’t predict if we’ll win. We play games, as the philosopher Bernard Suits explained, to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles for the sake of maybe overcoming them.
Michael Easter • Scarcity Brain
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?
There’s a collective, almost spiritual outcry for more creativity, meaning, and humanity in our lives. We live in a global society so coercively mechanised and commoditised that many of us feel crushed, burnt out, and more disconnected than ever.
The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more
The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more