Unserious
- 16 September 2016
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Games and Culture
- Vol. 12 (6), 605-618
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412016666366
Abstract
This article initiates a provocation for a collective discussion of what we might call an unserious epistemology for the study and design of games. How can we find ways of taking the unseriousness of games seriously? Starting with the idea that most players take their games much less seriously than game studies scholars, I reflect on the importance of the idea of unseriousness for the theorization of gameplay as a sociocultural activity of last resort in a contemporary world defined by the grave seriousness of life.Keywords
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