...“Social Games”<subtitle>Playing Our Part in the Systems Epoch</subtitle> 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...

... 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...

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... is Kazuo Ishiguro’s recent novel about artful forms of life and death, secluded education, and ecologies of ignorance, in the systems epoch: Never Let Me Go . Ishiguro’s fiction is about art in the systems epoch in being about artificial life in the autonomy-enclaves of that epoch. Social games...

... and stigmatized groups are differentially targeted as objects of surveillance and harassment in social media and video game culture. Yet policing and penalizing harrassers through legal means tends to work poorly and fails to address underlying issues and motivations for the behavior. This essay describes how...

... explores the cat-and-mouse game between street and embassy, situating it within the post–cold war conjuncture of ongoing crisis, of an eviscerated though still dictatorial state, of social death and the emptiness of citizenship under such conditions, of a sprawling transnational diaspora and the desires...

... This chapter discusses how quiz and game show formats, one of the most popular program types during socialism, were deployed as instruments for mass education. The argument zooms out to consider how quiz and game shows crystallized the logic of competition. Competition embraced and permeated...

... The paradox of the official world is that an indoor social life is at every moment oriented to the Great Outdoors. This chapter tracks the tactics of interaction—and noninteraction—that define a form of social life turned against itself. There is at once an “incrementalist turn” in recent...

... Chapter 6 considers how technology and internet culture built a foundation for Lil Nas X's success. The interplay of music and technology comes in two varieties: the medium and the marketing. As essential as technology is to the form music takes, the ways it promotes and socializes music...

... 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...

... This chapter conceptualizes bareness in a contemporary context where the dialectic between seeing and being seen or unseen has defined social recognition. To analyze this new regime of civility, it looks at the recent European “veil wars.” How have the right to see and the privilege to disappear...

... of examples, from game-show-based dating formats to reality shows dealing with love and romance to more advice-oriented formats, we examine how these shows navigate the contradictions between apparent forms of gender empowerment and marketized aspirations toward social and cultural fluidity, versus...

... literature. Claims are made, on the basis of Wolfgang Iser’s and Maurice Blanchot’s theories of literature, that literature matters because it serves three essential human functions: social critique, the pleasure of the text, and allowing a materialization of the imaginary or an endless approach...

.... To Singapore, with Love is composed of twenty sequential clips like a music score, intertwining and overlapping five melodic themes: how in games of politics players and pawns are silenced or moved off the board; the cultivation of forms of life and character; diasporic socialities and temporalities; anxieties...

...News from the Outside The paradox of the official world is that an indoor social life is at every moment oriented to the Great Outdoors. This chapter tracks the tactics of interaction—and noninteraction—that define a form of social life turned against itself. There is at once...

... public media. crime appeal reality TV spy drama Cold War This chapter discusses how quiz and game show formats, one of the most popular program types during socialism, were deployed as instruments for mass education. The argument zooms out to consider how quiz and game shows crystallized...

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