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51 – Suits – The Grasshopper

Game Studies Study Buddies

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Play Is Playing a Game

LZ Granderson: I want to make a distinction between play as a general concept and play is playing a game. He says Derrida gets too weirdly enough by way of Chopinhauer, who argues that human beings specifically allow play to interfere with their true productive activities. "Playtime comes after we save civilization," he writes in his new book.

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