Plumbing Game Studies

By: Graham Culbertson
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  • Summary

  • Philosophy is like plumbing for ideas - it makes connections and keeps everything flowing. In this podcast, Graham and his guests are doing some philosophical plumbing for game studies. We'll be asking questions like: Why are philosophers always talking about games? Is philosophy itself a game? How can we use games to understand philosophy - and how can we use philosophy to understand games? This podcast will use philosophy to study games and games to study philosophy. Anyone interested in philosophy, games, and how they interact should enjoy it! Remember: the unexamined game is not worth playing
    Copyright 2024 Graham Culbertson
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Episodes
  • 1.6 Huizinga's Homo Ludens

    1.6 Huizinga's Homo Ludens
    Jul 22 2024

    Martin Roth, of the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, joins me to discuss Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga's 1938 study of play and culture. Martin and I discuss the way that Homo Ludens can be considered the first "game studies" book, but also all of the ways that it is more complicated and surprising than its reputation as a game studies classic attests.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 1.5 Agon and Ancient Greek Society -- David Potter

    1.5 Agon and Ancient Greek Society -- David Potter
    Jul 11 2024

    Historian David Potter joins me to discuss the concept of agon, or competitive play, and how it animated everything in ancient Greek society from sports to education to politics to art. And Plato's The Republic, often considered the foundation of Western philosophy, was an attempt to end the agonistic nature of society.
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    42 mins
  • 1.4 Maria Lugones (and David Graeber) -- Miguel Sicart

    1.4 Maria Lugones (and David Graeber) -- Miguel Sicart
    Jun 27 2024

    Miguel Sicart, author of Playing Software, joins me for a playful, even anarchist discussion which was supposed to be about the work of Maria Lugones but ended up being about Lugones, Graeber, Almodóvar, Maradona, and much more.

    You can find Miguel's work here: https://miguelsicart.net/

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    1 hr and 2 mins
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