Tag: discursive games

• Barry Lyndon, Man of Games pt. 1

  Our lives, being a kind of game—an attempt at optimization, within constraints and laws—are subject to four interwoven influences which determine the game’s outcome. Who we are, the choices we make, the abilities we carry, and the luck which accompanies them. In other words, our status, our selections, our skills, and our stars.

  suspendedreason

  July 25, 2021

  Essays

  coordination, discursive games, film, garden of forking paths, intrinsic empowerment, language games, meaning, selection games, Stanley Kubrick, strategic interaction

• Pfeilstorch Progress: Games, Dialectic, Spirit

  I launched a [Discord server with a] small community of friends, which has this year, 2021, evolved into an online forum. Our mascot is the pfeilstorch. We’re interested in the inexact sciences, and moreover, in the rigorizing pipeline that got us from natural philosophy to biology, or alchemy to chemistry.

  suspendedreason

  May 11, 2021

  Blog

  all communication is manipulation, Bruno Latour, degenerate play, discursive games, erisology, Erving Goffman, Franz Boas, games, generalized reading, Interpretation, John Nerst, language, language games, LessWrong, linguistics, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, Sapir-Whorf, Sigmund Freud, strategic epistemology, surrogation, telephone effect, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling