[-empyre-] playing vs productivity (and what does it has to do with videogames?)

[Simon Biggs]

> From: Georg Russegger <georg.russegger at ufg.ac.at>
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:23:36 +0100
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] playing vs productivity (and what does it has to do
> with videogames?)
> 
> is dualism helpful: playing vs. productivity. (it might be just a catchy
> title)
> wouldn't something linke "prdoductive playability" (i guess julian - hi from
> austria - runs a blog with this title)
> give the perspective on where play has its productive moments?

I fear the issue might concern a political imperative. Playbour is that mode
of play which has been rendered productive within the market economy. Our
play is other's profits. Capital has managed to appropriate our down-time.
Do we want our play to be productive in this context?

For those who wish to critique or attack the economic hegemony we inhabit, a
route to this is to ensure one's play is unproductive or, even better,
anti-productive (eg: destructive). This is what I understand the Wombles and
other groups are all about.

Best

Simon


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