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The Score
How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s GameMind-expanding… so exuberant and readable that the depth and seriousness of its insights almost sneak up on you
€ 34,50 -
The Score
'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, GuardianIs this the game you want to be playing?Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives - whether it's the fit bits on our wrists, likes on social media, and even school rankings - they have become pervasive and increasingly dangerous, warping our desires and outsourcing our values to external institutions. Instead of encouraging us to be more playful, to take pleasure in the journey of striving towards a goal, institutions, corporations and bureaucracies weaponize scoring systems to impose their own interests. No matter what, we always seem to be playing by someone else's rules.In The Score, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen shows us how this newly 'gamified' world has fundamentally captured our value systems, turning what might be moral or personal life choices into numerical data, and forcing us to prioritise what can be measured and monetized over what is truly meaningful to us.A life-long lover of online and board games himself, Nguyen argues that we should not stop playing games but rather take a step back and become more aware of their immersive and profound power, so that we might chart a way towards more creative and joyful lives. To start playing our own game.
€ 16,50 -
Der Score
Die unheimliche Macht der Scores - wie Rankings und Punktesysteme unser Leben kapern Klickzahlen, Fitnesstracker, Bestsellerlisten, Politikerrankings: Unsere Gesellschaft ist besessen von Scores. Überall bestimmen Punktesysteme, was und wer als wertvoll gilt. Doch wann kippen Orientierungshilfen in Instrumente der Beherrschung? Der Philosoph C. Thi Nguyen deckt auf, wie Scores zu einem der prägendsten Werkzeuge unserer Zeit geworden sind - und warum wir dringend ihre Wirkungsweise verstehen müssen. Was macht "Scores" so mächtig und attraktiv? Statt uns mit der irritierenden Vielfalt von Meinungen und Werten zu konfrontieren, reduzieren sie diese Vielfalt auf simple Zahlen. Dadurch sagen sie uns, was wichtig ist und wonach wir streben sollten - und bringen eine verführerische Klarheit in unser Handeln. Nguyen demonstriert an lebensnahen Beispielen, dass diese scheinbar harmlosen Zahlen uns tatsächlich dazu verleiten, fremde Werte unhinterfragt zu übernehmen. Ob wir unsere Gesundheit durch Fitnesstracker optimieren, unsere Hobbys in Instagram- Likes messen oder unseren beruflichen Erfolg an Quartalszielen festmachen: Überall werden vielschichtige Motivationen durch eindimensionale Kennzahlen ersetzt. Wenn aber in unserer Beziehung zu unserer Gesundheit, unseren Jobs oder Lieblingsbeschäftigungen nur noch Scores zählen, verarmt unser Leben. Dagegen entwickelt Nguyen eine neue Philosophie der Bewertung: Er zeigt, wie wir spielerisch und bewusst mit Scores umgehen können, ohne von ihnen vereinnahmt zu werden. Ein wunderbares Buch über die Kunst, in einer quantifizierten Welt die Kontrolle über die eigenen Werte zu behalten.
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The Score
How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game€ 34,95 -
Giocare è un'arte. Il gioco come tecnologia trasformativa
Giocare permette di vivere esperienze soggettive e oggettive impossibili nella vita reale, con sistemi di regole che consentono, a partita finita, vinta o persa che sia, di fare un passo indietro e valutare l'esperienza: un'elegante battaglia fra ingegni in cui i contendenti si sono sfidati al massimo delle loro capacità. Per C. Thi Nguyen il conferire ai giocatori obiettivi e mezzi per perseguirli apre una via, solo in apparenza semplice, a una complessità di valori che qualifica il gioco come un momento fondamentale, ed esteticamente pregnante, della vita. Il gioco ci fornisce una serie di agency che possiamo indossare in modo temporaneo e che sono una sorta di palestra per affrontare le sfide di tutti i giorni. In questo saggio ricco e filosoficamente rigoroso Nguyen difende i giochi da due grandi pericoli: il ghigno di chi cerca di liquidarli come frivoli e i meccanismi di gamification che ne appiattiscono il valore.
€ 37,50 -
Games
Agency As ArtThis book is a total joy to read. Thi Nguyen's energy radiates from every page
€ 23,50 -
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games
An outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers within philosophy of games, philosophy of sport, digital aesthetics and game studies.
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Games: Agency as Art
€ 79,50 -
Games
Agency As ArtThis book is a total joy to read. Thi Nguyen's energy radiates from every page -- the prose is truly delightful, with all sorts of poetic turns of phrase enlivening the arguments and a whole world of games vibrantly described in rich detail. Indeed, if you're sceptical that games could be art, it may be because your game playing is limited to the likes of chess and gin rummy, and you are totally unaware, as I was until reading this book, of the incredible richness of the world of games.
€ 50,50