[-empyre-] Correction/ Re: On Gamer theory from universal to universes

Aliette G.C. aliette at criticalsecret.org
Wed May 7 21:46:24 EST 2008


Sorry...
of course the first lines are to read as following:

"Ken McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory. Specially the
chapter named "Atopia"

(not Utopia --that was an error due to the automatic dictionary)


Aliette G.C. a écrit :
> Hi Empyreans,
>
> By reading a few points of Brian'essay and the interest it meets in
> Spanish language in the thread, it appears that we have miss a
> reference such as Ken McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory. Specially the
> chapter named "Utopia" (which is not my proper idea of how to be in
> atopia in a post political word but very interesting as theorist
> concept of comportmental transgression of the bare life as well the
> social strategies in the post industrial world). it is the proper
> question of the culture nowadays. That is a way of the culture --even
> not folk.
>
> Item 124 "In games (...)"
>
> What results immediatly at my view is that a game is a project in real
> time integrating several times, it is not a transgressing project in
> the inheritated sense from utopia --that comes at the future. It is
> the very question of the issue of the game immediatly with all the
> knowledge of the game and of its story, that is no more the
> dialectical question as it can be of War at Clausewitz which supposes
> a political interest to make the war. But may be the concept of
> "double mass" (may be just economic) as situation of the war at
> Canetti's Crowds and Power can stay currently lightening in the
> situation of several countries in South America, and more between
> South America and the USA and between the USA and the rest of the
> world --included its allied "variety".
>
> From Gamer Theory that is exactly the question of surviving in bare
> life as emergent bare situation in the vectoral post-liberal world,
> but inheritated culture (rule, education, comportments to safe oneself
> toward and after the value) wherever can be the site (I mean whatever
> it would be or not be of the back level of industrialization and  of
> culture of the production).
>
> Something not universal --the actual question being the local question
> --all the contrary singular while depending the environment,
> but both something mathematic depending of the disposition of the game
> cannot be solved or following an abstract rule of mathematic
> plasticity of the chaos as condition of the game. Which paradigm after
> alll? Very simply Statistics?
>
> The question is not more of the value as line of project. The question
> is that one of otherness beyond the rule.
>



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