Play anything the pleasure of limits, the uses of boredom, and the secret of games
"Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us i...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Life is not a game
- Everywhere, playgrounds
- Ironoia, the mistrust of things
- Fun isn't pleasure, it's novelty
- Play is in things, not in you
- From restraint to constraint
- The pleasure of limits
- The opposite of happiness
- Living with things.
