Joyce Goggin
Biographic Data
| ID | 643662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Goggin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Goggin |
| SIGNATURE | GOGGIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Play and Games in Fiction and Theory
This article provides an historical overview of various theories of play, games and literature, and examines a number of examples taken from a wide range of texts both theoretical and literary. In doing so, the author analyses specific texts that address the role of play up to the present, and discusses the ludic in relation to mimesis, textuality and literature. The author also discusses fictional narratives on digital platforms such as video ga…
The Holy Game of Poker
A Critical Gambling Studies blog entry on Poker, gambling, religion and neoliberalism
The Social Life of Financial Derivatives
If one were required to select just one pithy, thought-provoking phrase from Ed LiPuma’s The Social Life of Financial Derivatives: Markets, Risk, and Time this would be my choice: ‘defining the der
How Do Those Danish Bastards Sleep at Night
This article considers LEGO's fans and how their labor was mobilized to create The LEGO Movie. Many aspects of this film make it a compelling case study for ludic economies, such as the film's self-conscious humor that suggests an awareness on of the company's brand-growing strategies. My argument will address fans' response to how LEGO has farmed their labor and the lack of resistance encountered in the extraction thereof. I will suggest explana…
Everything is awesome
Scholarship on the finance-security nexus has typically been concerned with 'first order' phenomena, such as the interpenetration of the finance and security sectors. This article contributes to the debate by turning to an apparent epiphenomenon, namely The LEGO Movie, and using it to address some overlooked intersections between popular culture and the finance-security complex. The analysis first focuses on how finance and security are represent…
Opening shots and loose slots
Anyone who has ever seen a film set in Las Vegas will be familiar with opening shots of sensational neon signage clustered against the night sky. This montage sequence, now an established convention, leads the viewer on a thrilling joy-ride, generally beginning on Fremont Street in the old city centre, then heading down the world-famous Strip. Such an opening occurs in textual fictional narratives about Las Vegas in various ways, and in film it v…
Learning finance through fiction
This article discusses the rise of modern banking, the invention of credit and a related persistent orientation to the future inherent in credit-based economies, through the example of the novel which, as a literary form, came into being at roughly the same time. As a distinctly commercial genre and as a product of the financial revolution, novels ask readers to 'credit' the stories they tell with truthfulness, and to invest them with a particula…
Regulating (Virtual) Subjects
In this article the author examines a number of ways in which the real world economy is currently merging with practices that have been classically understood as belonging to the spheres of culture and play. The article discusses several areas in which the conceptual line between the supposedly rational technologies of finance, and the 'less serious' or 'irrational' sphere of culture, is fading as finance is progressively enlisted to serve the pu…
Vaniada
Regulating (Virtual) Subjects
In this article the author examines a number of ways in which the real world economy is currently merging with practices that have been classically understood as belonging to the spheres of culture and play. The article discusses several areas in which the conceptual line between the supposedly rational technologies of finance, and the 'less serious' or 'irrational' sphere of culture, is fading as finance is progressively enlisted to serve the pu…
How Do Those Danish Bastards Sleep at Night
This article considers LEGO's fans and how their labor was mobilized to create The LEGO Movie. Many aspects of this film make it a compelling case study for ludic economies, such as the film's self-conscious humor that suggests an awareness on of the company's brand-growing strategies. My argument will address fans' response to how LEGO has farmed their labor and the lack of resistance encountered in the extraction thereof. I will suggest explana…
Learning finance through fiction
This article discusses the rise of modern banking, the invention of credit and a related persistent orientation to the future inherent in credit-based economies, through the example of the novel which, as a literary form, came into being at roughly the same time. As a distinctly commercial genre and as a product of the financial revolution, novels ask readers to 'credit' the stories they tell with truthfulness, and to invest them with a particula…
Vaniada
Regulating (Virtual) Subjects
In this article the author examines a number of ways in which the real world economy is currently merging with practices that have been classically understood as belonging to the spheres of culture and play. The article discusses several areas in which the conceptual line between the supposedly rational technologies of finance, and the 'less serious' or 'irrational' sphere of culture, is fading as finance is progressively enlisted to serve the pu…
Opening shots and loose slots
Anyone who has ever seen a film set in Las Vegas will be familiar with opening shots of sensational neon signage clustered against the night sky. This montage sequence, now an established convention, leads the viewer on a thrilling joy-ride, generally beginning on Fremont Street in the old city centre, then heading down the world-famous Strip. Such an opening occurs in textual fictional narratives about Las Vegas in various ways, and in film it v…
Learning finance through fiction
This article discusses the rise of modern banking, the invention of credit and a related persistent orientation to the future inherent in credit-based economies, through the example of the novel which, as a literary form, came into being at roughly the same time. As a distinctly commercial genre and as a product of the financial revolution, novels ask readers to 'credit' the stories they tell with truthfulness, and to invest them with a particula…
Everything is awesome
Scholarship on the finance-security nexus has typically been concerned with 'first order' phenomena, such as the interpenetration of the finance and security sectors. This article contributes to the debate by turning to an apparent epiphenomenon, namely The LEGO Movie, and using it to address some overlooked intersections between popular culture and the finance-security complex. The analysis first focuses on how finance and security are represent…
How Do Those Danish Bastards Sleep at Night
This article considers LEGO's fans and how their labor was mobilized to create The LEGO Movie. Many aspects of this film make it a compelling case study for ludic economies, such as the film's self-conscious humor that suggests an awareness on of the company's brand-growing strategies. My argument will address fans' response to how LEGO has farmed their labor and the lack of resistance encountered in the extraction thereof. I will suggest explana…
The Social Life of Financial Derivatives
If one were required to select just one pithy, thought-provoking phrase from Ed LiPuma’s The Social Life of Financial Derivatives: Markets, Risk, and Time this would be my choice: ‘defining the der
Play and Games in Fiction and Theory
This article provides an historical overview of various theories of play, games and literature, and examines a number of examples taken from a wide range of texts both theoretical and literary. In doing so, the author analyses specific texts that address the role of play up to the present, and discusses the ludic in relation to mimesis, textuality and literature. The author also discusses fictional narratives on digital platforms such as video ga…
The Holy Game of Poker
A Critical Gambling Studies blog entry on Poker, gambling, religion and neoliberalism
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)