Mario, Roguelites, and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence (Minigame 1)
How would you feel if you had to live life over and over again? Would it be like playing Slay the Spire? Or maybe Super Mario Bros?
About the Podcast
Plumbing Game Studies
A Games and Philosophy Podcast
Philosophy is like plumbing for ideas - it makes connections and keeps everything flowing. In this podcast, Graham and his guests are doing some philosophical plumbing for game studies. We'll be asking questions like:
Why are philosophers always talking about games? Is philosophy itself a game? How can we use games to understand philosophy - and how can we use philosophy to understand games?
This podcast will use philosophy to study games and games to study philosophy. Anyone interested in philosophy, games, and how they interact should enjoy it!
Remember: the unexamined game is not worth playing
Why are philosophers always talking about games? Is philosophy itself a game? How can we use games to understand philosophy - and how can we use philosophy to understand games?
This podcast will use philosophy to study games and games to study philosophy. Anyone interested in philosophy, games, and how they interact should enjoy it!
Remember: the unexamined game is not worth playing
About your host
Graham Culbertson
Graham Culbertson is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Games Studies Initiative of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC, Chapel Hill.
You may know him from such podcasts as Everyday Anarchism and Left on the Table.
You can reach him at graham.culbertson@unc.edu.
You may know him from such podcasts as Everyday Anarchism and Left on the Table.
You can reach him at graham.culbertson@unc.edu.