... Social games Game Theory Anime Patricia Highsmith William Dean Howells Theodore Dreiser Thomas Demand ...

... This chapter focuses on modern games and the game-like order of things in the systems epoch. The chapter centers on form games, war games, and social games. It shows how games have a central place in modern social systems, what they look like, and how they work. Game theory is examined...

... The Incrementalist Turn The Turn Turn Game Theory Erving Goffman Patricia Highsmith Georg Simmel ...

... systems, what they look like, and how they work. Game theory is examined as a way of modeling modernity and as one of its symptoms. The relays between game and world in the official world is examined in several different scenes, including Patricia Highsmith’s suspense novel Ripley’s Game , anime-based...

... for a comparative historical sociology. The introduction argues that a necessarily fragmentary approach to social life, in which the intensive study of a fragment is used to gain a perspective on a larger whole, offers a greater potential for social science than the analysis of large data, undergirded by game...

... extraverted and suspended life-world in which people meet outside themselves. The Incrementalist Turn The Turn Turn Game Theory Erving Goffman Patricia Highsmith Georg Simmel ...

... behavior” in a radically extraverted and suspended life-world in which people meet outside themselves. The Incrementalist Turn The Turn Turn Game Theory Erving Goffman Patricia Highsmith Georg Simmel The final chapter of the book is a postscript on the official world. The notion...

... to an unapproachable imaginary. Though human civilization would not come to an end if literature, in the old-fashioned sense of printed books, were to vanish in an age of what Miller calls “prestidigitalization,” much would be lost that video games, films, television, and popular songs can hardly replace...

... or an endless approach to an unapproachable imaginary. Though human civilization would not come to an end if literature, in the old-fashioned sense of printed books, were to vanish in an age of what Miller calls “prestidigitalization,” much would be lost that video games, films, television, and popular songs...