Can We Make Space for Technique?: Politics and Play in Digital Coaching
In Sweden, youth soccer is expected to be fun –but in a specific way. Rooted in the 19th-century idealization of amateurism over professionalism, fun in Swedish youth soccer…
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Laughter and Dreaming of Wins in Recovery
“Hannah, roll a six!,” Mahad, Alliance Wellness recovery program resident, pleaded as the game of Ludo intensified. Ludo, a strategic and competitive board game, was popular among Somali…
Chaotic Oscillation: Understanding the Paradoxical Presence of Video Games in Contemporary Society
Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult…
Julia Hildebrand on her book, Aerial Play
Interview by Maximilian Jablonowski https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-2195-6 Maximilian Jablonowski: While reading your book, one learns about your “transformation in a dron…
Ep#63 Culture Shock, Storytelling, Pungent Masculinity & Rule Based Imaginations: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · #63 Culture Shock, Storytelling, Pungent Masculinity & Rule Based Imagination For the panel this week we welcome Luke Corbin from Myanmar Musings and Familiar…
The power of bingo during COVID-19 by Carrie Ryan
As lockdowns impose physical distancing, communities are imagining new ways to connect, and there is one surprising, shared tactic communities across the world are using to bolster social…
#Afterlives: Tears and Dreams of a Martyr
“When my father went, he knew he let me in safe hands. It means that instead of one hand, I have a million hands; instead of one hug,…
Video Games, Mental Health, and the Complicated Nature of Playing
Young man plays Fortnite at a gaming competition CC BY-SA 4.0 He melted into the shadows, pressing the ‘E’ key on his keyboard, activating his stealth skill, allowing…
Playing with Conspiracy Theories
What might viewing conspiracism as a form of play tell us about the workings of contemporary culture, our capacity for critical thinking, or how we build new understandings?…
The Games! They’re Alive!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in the Living Games Conference in Austin, Texas. Living Games, which started in 2014 at the NYU Game…
Sex/Gender: Part III: What Counts as Adequate Function? by Constance Cummings
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary The sex/gender conference succeeded in bringing together people “with dif…
Brian Massumi’s “What Animals Teach Us About Politics” by Naisargi Dave
What Animals Teach Us About Politics by Brian Massumi Duke University Press, 2014, 152 pages. This is a book about choice. That reader who chooses non-acquiescence, chooses learning…