Can any medium exist outside of the political?
Looking at media theory, cognitive theory, philosophy and personal stories to understand games and some of their community problems.
10. @freyadutta GAMES
SYSTEMS DESIGN
OPTIMISES THE
CHANCES OF
MEANINGFUL
ENGAGEMENT
BETWEEN PLAYERS &
THE SYSTEMS THEY
INHABIT
image/Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich.
16. @freyadutta GAMES
PLAY
DISRUPTS THE
WAY WE
INTERACT
WITH OTHER
PEOPLE
image/May Day's Grecian Dance [Postcard 1917]
17. PLAY
RE APPROPRIATES
SPACE
@freyadutta GAMES
image/ Painted video game cabinet by Nick Kuszyk @ Babycastles | 3D PacMan
18. DIGITAL PLAY:
CREATING SPACES BY
PLACING PARAMETERS TO
DEFINE IT
PLAY
RE APPROPRIATES
SPACE
@freyadutta GAMES
ANALOG PLAY:
CHANGING THE RULES AND
BOUNDARIES OF EXISTING
SPACES TO ALLOW FOR NEW
INTERACTIONS
image/ Painted video game cabinet by Nick Kuszyk @ Babycastles | 3D PacMan
19. @freyadutta GAMES
GAMES CREATE A VIRTUALITY INSPIRED BY A
“REAL” BUT DO SO BY BREAKING DOWN & RE-MAKING
THE VALUE SYSTEMS OF THE “REAL”
21. @freyadutta GAMES
GAMES CREATE A VIRTUALITY INSPIRED BY A
“REAL” BUT DO SO BY BREAKING DOWN & RE-MAKING
THE VALUE SYSTEMS OF THE “REAL”
MORE “REAL” THAN THE “REAL”,
ARE GAMES HYPERREAL OBJECTS?
22. SIMULACRA @freyadutta GAMES
OBJECTS NOT BASED IN
A REALITY OR HIDING IT,
INSTEAD CONCEALING
image/ Jean Baudrillard | WoW Funeral Raid
THE IRRELEVANCE OF
REALITY TO OUR LIVES
23. SIMULACRA
@freyadutta GAMES
image/ Gilles Deleuze | Triad & Lesbian
Spider Queens of Mars by Anna Anthropy
A NEW SPACE
WHERE THE
ACCEPTED IDEAL
CAN BE
CHALLENGED &
OVERTURNED
29. @freyadutta GAMES
GAMES MIGHT EXIST OUTSIDE OF A
POPULAR POLITICAL SPECTRUM
THEY MIGHT EVEN HAVE A POLITICS THAT IS
NOT ESTABLISHED YET
30. @freyadutta GAMES
GAMES MIGHT EXIST OUTSIDE OF A
POPULAR POLITICAL SPECTRUM
THEY MIGHT EVEN HAVE A POLITICS THAT IS
NOT ESTABLISHED YET
BUT THEY CANNOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF
POLITICS
31. @freyadutta GAMES
image+ quote / Elizabeth Grosz | Illustration by Tom Leytham
“BODIES ARE ABSENT IN
ARCHITECTURE, BUT
THEY REMAIN
ARCHITECTURE'S
UNSPOKEN CONDITION”
33. @freyadutta GAMES
THE ABSENCE OF THE
POLITICAL IN
POPULAR GAMES
CULTURE REVEALS
THE PRESENCE OF A
DEEPLY CHARGED
POLITICS
34. @freyadutta GAMES
“THE GENERATION OF
MODELS OF A REAL
WITHOUT ORIGIN OR
REALITY”
image + quote / Jean Baudrillard
GAMES CREATE A
WORLD WHERE
REALITY IS
REPRESENTED AS AN
UNREALISTICALLY
PERFECT IDEAL
35. @freyadutta GAMES
DO OUR CHOICES IN
GAMES MATTER?
WE ARE TOLD THEY
DO...
SUPER-HONED
FEEDBACK LOOPS
REASSURE US WHEN
IN DOUBT.
37. @freyadutta GAMES
GAMES DO NOT NEED TO PARSE
KNOWLEDGE,
BUT MUST PERPETUALLY ADD DATA
TO THE SYSTEM TO EXIST
image / Twine tech tree
38. @freyadutta GAMES
THE COMMUNITY
AROUND A
COMMODITY IS
ALWAYS A
CAPITALISTIC
ENTITY
image + quote / Jean Baudrillard
39. @freyadutta GAMES
WHAT POLITICS
CARRY FORWARD
INTO A COMMUNITY
BORN OUT OF &
SUSTAINED BY A
COMMODIFIED
ENVIRONMENT?
image / GTA V release queues in Walsall
40. @freyadutta GAMES
THE FORM OF GAMES IMPACTS THE
NATURE OF GAMES [AND THEIR
INHABITANTS]
41. @freyadutta GAMES
AS LONG AS GAMES ARE LIMITED TO
A SINGULARITY OF FORM, THE
COMMUNITIES AROUND IT WILL
REMAIN STATIC
45. “The “possible” is an already @freyadutta GAMES
performed version of the real while
the “virtual” promises something
different to the actual it produces;
and always contains in it, the
potential for something other than
the actual.”
image + quote / Elizabeth Grosz