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Plumbing Game Studies

By: Graham Culbertson
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  • 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
  • 1.4 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
  • 1.3 Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper - C. Thi Nguyen

    1.3 Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper - C. Thi Nguyen
    May 9 2024

    Thi Nguyen joins me to discuss The Grasshopper, a work which takes up Wittgenstein's challenge to define a game and does so in a very productive way. Thi and I discuss the Suitsian definition of a game, how it can redefine not just our sense of games but also the meaning of life, and what this definition of games means for our understanding of agency.

    We conclude by discussing María Lugones' theory of play, which will be the subject of my next episode with Miguel Sicart.

    You can find more from Thi here: https://objectionable.net/
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Schopenhauer on Using Games Against Anxiety (Minigame 2)

    Schopenhauer on Using Games Against Anxiety (Minigame 2)
    Apr 23 2024

    Why do you feel anxious, according to Schopenhauer?

    Excess energy!

    What should you do about it?

    Play a game!
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    21 mins
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