The impossible reversal : a history of how we play /
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Minneapolis :
University Of Minnesota Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Interpreting play
- Part I. The impossible reversal. Play without rules: George Brecht and the uncertainty of judgment
- Pinball logics: from the EM arcades to The Incredible Machine
- Part II. Expending the secret. Play without knowing: Yoko Ono and the anthropology of ritual
- Act natural: from therapeutic role-play to Super Mario World
- Part III. Simulated freedom. Play without end: Benjamin Patterson and liberal subjectivity
- Model citizens: from management training to SimCity
- Part IV. Oblique repetition. Play without meaning: Shigeko Kubota and the semiotics of chess
- Adventures in abstraction: from media panic to Tetris
- Conclusion: synthesizing video games