It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.
[Image: By Tsunehisa Kumura, from Tsunehisa Kumura’s Visual Scandals by Photomontage].
From the post Gunnery Pagodas / Manhattan Niagara / The University of War by @bldgblog
The moral sense, we are learning, is as vulnerable to illusions as the other senses. It is apt to confuse morality per se with purity, status and conformity. It tends to reframe practical problems as moral crusades and thus see their solution in punitive aggression. It imposes taboos that make certain ideas indiscussible. And it has the nasty habit of always putting the self on the side of the angels.
The utopian dream of liberating play from the game, of a pure play beyond the game, merely opened the way for the extension of gamespace into every aspect of everyday life”.
The world as a gamespace:
Quotations from “Gamer Theory” by McKenzie Wark | Curated matter
(via wildcat2030)