Enjoying machines / Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Barry, 1972-

Contributor:

Juhlin, Oskar.

Carl Hering Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Psychological aspects.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Pleasure.

Amusements.

Physical Description:

viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 Why is pleasure important? 1

Why do we need to look at pleasure? 5

A program 9

A preview of the chapters 11

2 What is enjoyment? 13

Pleasure is worldly 16

Pleasure is a skill 20

Pleasuie is ordinary 26

Pleasure is felt 31

The empirical program of enjoyment 36

3 Play, game, and enjoyment 39

Concepts of game studies 40

Counter-Strike: Shooting as if it matters 45

Playing with animals: Big-game hunting 55

Contrasting games and hunting 62

4 Enjoyment in the literature 65

Enjoyment as an event in the brain 66

Happiness in economics and psychology 70

The philosophy of happiness and the good life 73

The fear of happiness in classic sociological writing 77

Psychoanalysis of the enjoyment society 82

Leisure studies 85

Fun in human-computer interaction 87

5 Pleasure in family and friends 93

Locating the family 97

Friendship 105

Pleasures of family and friends 113

6 Mobility and the flâneuring experience 116

The concept of the flâneur 117

Tourism as enjoyment 122

Flaneuring and the pleasure of driving 128

Technologies of flâneuring 135

Recovering enjoyment in mobility 138

7 Media 141

Television: The box at the end of the couch 143

Producing televised enjoyment experiences 155

8 Toward a society of happiness 165

Design 168

Politics and enjoyment 175

Closing words 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-213) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Carl Hering Fund.

ISBN:

0262028786

9780262028783

OCLC:

890107236

Publisher Number:

99963202299