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Ian BogostIan Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, had his new book, Play Anything, reviewed in “Games People Play: Three Books on What's Behind the Fun” by The New York Times.
Excerpt:
In “Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games,” Ian Bogost takes the widest angle view, promising to “upset the deep and intuitive beliefs you hold about seemingly simple concepts like play and its supposed result, fun.” Bogost, who also wrote “How to Talk About Videogames,” is a philosopher, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and video game designer. Proposing an aesthetic of play, he draws on myriad examples, from golf to the task of watering his lawn to his daughter’s self-directed rules of “step on a crack, break your mother’s back.”
For the full article, read here.
