Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
$42.57
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2019
Summary
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.“Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage-it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child’s play. In Fun, Taste, & Games, John Sharp and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool for understanding and appreciating play and games. They position fun at the heart of the aesthetics of games. As beauty …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262039352 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262039354 |
| Author: | John Sharp, David Thomas |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Playful Thinking |
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[A] revelatory account of an essential element of our lives.– TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION –
[A] revelatory account of an essential element of our lives.
—TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAbout The Author
John Sharp
John Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game- On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Games, Design, and Play- A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games- An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons.David Thomas is Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado Denver. A former game journalist, he runs the website Buzzcut.com.
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