Assistant Professor of Technology and Digital Media @UTAEnglish | Ex-decathlete | Agent for @DouGPT5 | Opinions seldom my own
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Games were computational before there were computer games.
I haven't seen the print version yet (prob in my mailbox at school), but #ConfigurationsJournal themed issue on #GameStudies is out! Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2024: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52328 #videogamestudies .@SocLitSciArts
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Il est rare qu'un homme seul ait envie de rire
-- Sartre, La Nausée, qtd. in Fred Jameson, "The Laughter of Nausea," 1959
According to the Formalist point of view, mathematics should be regarded as a fully formal game played with marks on paper, and the only requirement this game need fulfill is that it does not lead to an inconsistency. To completely describe the game required setting down 1/
However we shall demand that they be completely explicit rules requiring no infinite processes to check and that in principle they can be coded into a computing machine. In this way, questions concerning infinite sets 6/
The notion that Marx is a kind of super brain that descended out of Trier in Germany at a certain moment, that he knew everything, that he wrote everything that he could see to the end of history and he just unfortunately happened to die in 1883 is really going back to the Marx
The only Marx worth celebrating then is the Marx who is interested in thinking and in struggling on an open terrain, the Marx who offers a marxism without guarantees, a marxism without answers.