Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

How Games Shape Our Minds with Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen

Feb 9, 2023

01:14:50

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Machine Gambling

02:22

The Problem of the Gamification of Everything Is Not Just Addiction

02:37

Joint Moral Outrage Porn

03:00

Introduction

2min

The Human Draw and the Academic Draw

4min

What Games Have You Been Playing Since the 90s?

2min

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2min

Is Everything a Game?

4min

What's Twitter Doing to You?

2min

Are You Just Winning It?

2min

University Rankings

2min

Law School Rankings - What Does That Say About Humans?

2min

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Is It Competitiveness?

3min

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Addiction by Design

3min

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Machine Gambling

2min

13.

The Problem of the Gamification of Everything Is Not Just Addiction

3min

14.

Is Social Media an Addiction?

2min

15.

Is Your AttentionSpan Getting Worse?

2min

16.

Seeing Like a State by James Scott

3min

17.

Is There a Difference Between Manage and Sell?

3min

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Is It Just for Selling You?

2min

19.

Are We Doomed?

3min

20.

Why You Shouldn't Be Evaluating Value

2min

21.

You Should Outsource Your Values to Twitter

4min

22.

How Would You Define Echo Chambers?

3min

23.

Cancel Culture?

3min

24.

Joint Moral Outrage Porn

3min

25.

Cancel Culture?

2min

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Is There a Connection Between Echo Chambers and Cults?

2min

27.

Why Is It Impossible to Think for Yourself?

2min

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The Problem of Echo Chambers

2min

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Is There Anything I Should Throw in There?

3min

C.Thi Nguyen, Ph.D. is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah and author of the book Games: Agency as Art, which was awarded the American Philosophical Association’s Book Prize. His work examines games as an art form —specifically, their role in communicating different forms of societal agency. He and Eileen discuss how our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value, including everything from games, social media, porn and echo chambers.

You can find him at objectionable.net.

Twitter: @add_hawk

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You can buy his book Games: Agency As Art.

https://www.amazon.com/Games-Agency-As-Art-Thinking/dp/0190052082

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