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Plumbing Game StudiesA Games and Philosophy Podcast Author: Graham Culbertson
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 Language: en Genres: Games, Leisure, Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Meta of Free to Play Games -- Donald MacKenzie
Episode 12
Thursday, 13 March, 2025
Sociologist Donald MacKenzie joins me to discuss his recent article in the London Review of Books, "Hey Big Spender: What Your Smartphone Knows About You."Game Studies rarely focuses on phone games - but billions of people are playing them. And they are mostly free. So getting you to pay for them is another game entirely.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/donald-mackenzie/hey-big-spender