Play, History and Politics

Conceiving Futures Beyond Empire

Bibliographic Data

ID19001007
AuthorsRobbie Fordyce (0000-0003-0244-8151, Monash University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume16
Issue3
Pages294-304
Publication date2020-09-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGames and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1555-4120 • E-ISSN: 1555-4139
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1555412020962430
OpenAlexW3088148372
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

The worlds of games are important places for us to think about time, as demonstrated by historical game studies in evaluating the past, but there is a role for games to help us consider the future as well. Because games are, to some extent, systems, they facilitate a systems thinking approach that connects the material to the immaterial. Because games also tend to be action-based, they allow thinking through of acts as well as representations. Games allow us to think about a time and place that is different from the present and how it might operate as a system that we could live in. I argue that a post-autonomist method of game analysis requires an explicitly political interpretation that is focused on trying to imagine a political future through experiments in gaming

Aesthetics · Economics · Empire · Epistemology · Futures contract · Game mechanics · Game studies · Game theory · Human–computer interaction · Mathematical economics · Media studies · Metagaming · Political science · Politics · Sequential game · Simultaneous game · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy

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