1.3 Bernard Suits' The Grasshopper - C. Thi Nguyen

Thi Nguyen joins me to discuss The Grasshopper, a work which takes up Wittgenstein's challenge to define a game and does so in a very productive way. Thi and I discuss the Suitsian definition of a game, how it can redefine not just our sense of games but also the meaning of life, and what this definition of games means for our understanding of agency.

We conclude by discussing María Lugones' theory of play, which will be the subject of my next episode with Miguel Sicart.

You can find more from Thi here: https://objectionable.net/

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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

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.