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Playing software : homo ludens in computational culture / Miguel Sicart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sicart, Miguel, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Play.
- Human-computer interaction.
- Video games.
- Role playing.
- Mass media and culture.
- Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "This is Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens for the 21st century. Miguel Sicart extends Huizinga's argument that play is essential to the generation of culture to the computational culture of today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 0. Start
- 1. Playing
- Defining Play, Again (This Won't Be the Last Time)
- Software Agents
- Playing Software
- 2. Interfaces
- Thinking the Interface
- First Steps
- The Practice of Playing Software
- Video Games as (Interface) Practices
- Loving the Alien
- The Play Interface
- 3. Playthings
- Theoretical Background
- AI Is a (Play) Thing
- Relationality and the World
- Thinking about Things
- Things We Play With
- Software as Plaything
- 4. Personalities
- A Question of Attitude
- Tell Me How You Feel
- Pretending Software
- Pretending and Making Pretense
- Personalities and Playthings
- Worlds of Make-Believe
- 5. Systems
- Cybernetics and Entropy
- Systems and Game Design
- Closed Worlds and the Dangers of Playing Software
- A Most Dangerous . . . Game?
- World Traveling in the Information Age
- 6. Capital
- Captured at Play
- Playful Capitalism
- Play as Heteromatic Ghost Work
- World Traveling in Capitalism
- 7. Endings
- Notes
- Chapter 0
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780262373173
- 9780262373180
- 0-262-37318-1
- 0-262-37317-3
- OCLC:
- 1344161008
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