Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jaranta@scholar.social

If you want to come to Finland and talk about games, take a look at this CfP for DiGRA 2020, taking place June 2–6 next year.

https://digra2020.org/

#GameStudies

The page count for a full Erasmus+ project application is 231 pages. That's just the application.

Finally solving one of the big problems in philosophy.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fish

DiGRA2020 (the yearly conference for game studies scholars) conference was just announced to be in Tampere, Finland, June 2-6.

#DiGRA2019 #GameStudies

I've now witnessed two presentations from Grant Tavinor, a philosopher, presenting at #DiGRA2019 to a group of mostly humanities and social sciences game studies people. Glazed eyes and dropped jaws all around, when he starts talking in analytical philosophy language about how "things obtain."

A group of game scholars has written the Ludic Boredom Manifesto, saying that fun has had a too large role in game studies.

#GameStudies #DiGRA2019

Jonathan Frome and Paul Martin looked through Game studies & Games and Culture and found that:

• 89% cite games
• Most cited games were: World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Chess (top 3 in order)

#GameStudies

Olli Tapio Leino and Sebastian Möring argue that the distinction between play and work has disappeared in the neo-liberal techno-culture. Games are complicit in this. #DiGRA2019

The starting keynote of #DiGRA2019 from Eiji Ōtsuka traces back the history of the media-mix to the propaganda of Taisen Yokusankai during the second world war. He called it “participatory fascism.”

Spending this week in Japan, for #DiGRA2019, the yearly conference for #GameStudies scholars, including the #RPGSummit, which focuses on studying role-playing games. Expect confused, alarmed and surprised toots about games this week, in Kyoto time.

I’ve recently seen more academic talks where the author has been reading out their paper out loud in front of the audience. I wrote a bit about why I think that is a bad idea and suggestions on how to avoid that.

https://jonne.arjoranta.fi/2019/academic-talks/

My To Read folder is again at over 100 texts. There has to be a better way to do this.

Today at the Ropecon 2019 academic seminar, listening to a bunch of presentations on role-playing games.

https://2019.ropecon.fi/eng/program/academic-seminar/

#ropecon2019aca #ropecon2019

My book chapter “Playing the Nonhuman – Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator” is now available from Taylor & Francis. If you just want to read the chapter, you can find it on my website.

http://gamephilosophy.org/2019/07/book-chapter-playing-the-nonhuman-alien-experiences-in-aliens-vs-predator/

#gamestudies #philosophy