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How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age

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 into one of endless, playful possibilities.

The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning.

Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears.

Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.

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How filling life with play whether soccer or lawn mowing counting sheep or tossing angry birds forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age play anything is nothing short of brilliant i will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone i know u jane mcgo Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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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 in Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Ebook

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 september 2016

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Ian Bogost

Tweede Auteur: Bogost, Ian

Hoofduitgeverij: Basic Books

Lees dit ebook op: Desktop (Mac en Windows)

Lees dit ebook op: Kobo e-reader

Lees dit ebook op: Android (smartphone en tablet)

Lees dit ebook op: iOS (smartphone en tablet)

Lees dit ebook op: Windows (smartphone en tablet)

Editie: 1

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 166 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 35 mm

Verpakking lengte: 241 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 503 g

EAN: 9780465096503

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