Rethinking playfulness
Things, bodies, and ideas as play partners and their agency in mediated sex, kink, and BDSM spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4485900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moritz Wischert-Zielke (0000-0003-4739-2358, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-105 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Play (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-4937 • E-ISSN: 2159-4953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21594937.2024.2323418 |
| OpenAlex | W4392691053 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Play and its material-semiotic configurations are being acknowledged more and more as creative and formative forces in socio-cultural spatialization. However, subject-centered epistemologies of the roles of materiality and the thing still haunt perspectives on play. This theoretical article critically approaches and reevaluates the concept of ‘playfulness’ via affect theory in a relational ontology of play. Thinking of playfulness as a relation between bodies, things, and ideas gathered as ‘play partners’ which co-enable each other’s capacities for play evades viewing it as a causal mental state of the subject or a mere outcome of play as a practice. Rather, drawing from Lugones, playfulness can be grasped as a differential, pre-individual type of spatializing affect which is primary to play. Finally, thinking with the recent series How to Build a Sex Room, the theoretical account links to a reading of the agency of playful things in the real-and-imagined spaces of sex, kink and BDSM
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Formative assessment · Linguistics · Ontology · Pedagogy · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Spatialization · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
Play Matters
Affect
The Grasshopper
The Affective Turn
BDSM as trauma play
Playthings
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design
A Prefigurative Politics of Play in Public Places
Playful civic skills
Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Touching Feeling
A multidisciplinary perspective on adult play and playfulness
Situated Knowledges
Working at Play
Adult Play
Group Sex as Play
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Humans, Animals, and Play
The Sociology of Sociability
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |