I appreciate the telescoping out and asking the “so what” question here. It’s worth thinking about how Bogost’s work interacts with pedagogy, with the work we do in a course like ENGL 306. I’m designing a course […]

Oh, and am also glad to see that you love CURB: I haven’t caught the reboot yet, but the original show was brilliant!

I can see how this chapter resonated with you given your original blogpost on “alienation” and play. Indeed, if a Martian watched people playing Overwatch, working the trading floor of a commodities exchange, and […]

You raise a provocative question at the end that might be developed more fully. If an essential part of “play” is its separateness from “real life” (and this is what pioneering play theorists like Huizenga and […]

You really capture the almost therapeutic dimension of Bogost’s argument here. He sounds a bit like Wordsworth at times, or Rousseau, imagining play as a pathway back to the more innocent and fresh perspective of […]