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Games and Why They Matter: A Conversation with Thi Nguyen

0:00:00 Introduction 0:03:00 What is your background with games? 0:05:28 How do philosophers define a game? 0:07:00 Bernard Suits’s definition of a game 0:10:32 Striving play versus achievement play 0:15:17 Why are games philosophically interesting? 0:19:09 A brief interlude on cooking 0:23:10 Are games art? 0:25:20 Games as an art form 0:32:40 The moral dimensions of game play 0:41:20 Why are games important? 0:48:50 What are your views about gamification? 0:54:50 The dangers of artificial clarity 1:00:39 Some examples of problematic value capture 1:04:00 Twitter as a game 1:10:00 Concluding comments Dr. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah) talks with ECC’s Geoff Pynn about games and why they matter. Dr. Nguyen’s book Games: Agency as Art https://global.oup.com/academic/produ... Dr. Nguyen’s webpage https://objectionable.net Dr. Nguyen’s 2020 board game recommendations https://objectionable.net/2020/12/07/... Other books mentioned by Dr. Nguyen: -The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia (Bernard Suits) https://www.amazon.com/Grasshopper-Ga... -Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability (Wendy Espeland & Michael Sauder) https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Anxiet... -Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Natasha Dow Schull) https://www.amazon.com/Addiction-Desi...