03294cam a2200337 4500 545473718 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781541698123 1541698126 B01DWV0ZFS Amazon ac714f31-7d16-4983-95ee-682bcc8beef0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2667614 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bogost, Ian. Play Anything [Libby eBook] : The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games. Basic Books, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 855kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 855kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>How filling life with play</b>-<b>whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds</b>-<b>forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age</b></p> <p><br /> Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call <i>fun</i>. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In <i>Play Anything,</i> visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities.<br /> The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. <i>Play Anything,</i> reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set <i>limitations</i>. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning.<br /> Play is what happens when we <i>accept</i> these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears.<br /> Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.</p>. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Sociology. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ac714f31-7d16-4983-95ee-682bcc8beef0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ac714f31-7d16-4983-95ee-682bcc8beef0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ac714f31-7d16-4983-95ee-682bcc8beef0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)