03301oam 2200661K 450 991079705310332120190503073425.00-262-32421-00-262-32420-2(CKB)3710000000376810(EBL)3339961(SSID)ssj0001460445(PQKBManifestationID)12593803(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460445(PQKBWorkID)11465936(PQKB)11422546(MiAaPQ)EBC3339961(OCoLC)905349559(OCoLC)907630068(OCoLC)957635190(OCoLC)962814116(OCoLC)974029001(OCoLC)974296375(OCoLC)992074901(OCoLC)1055333377(OCoLC)1066639043(OCoLC)1081235077(OCoLC-P)905349559(MaCbMITP)9251(Au-PeEL)EBL3339961(CaPaEBR)ebr11034336(CaONFJC)MIL752806(OCoLC)905349559(EXLCZ)99371000000037681020150320h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe aesthetic of play /Brian UptonCambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :The MIT Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (335 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-336-21520-8 0-262-02851-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Defining play -- Interactivity -- Play spaces -- Heuristics -- Anticipation -- Mastery -- Understanding -- Epistemology -- Neurons -- Signs -- Playing without winning -- Performance -- Narrative play -- Narrative structure -- Play & meaning -- Critical play.In this book, Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play - how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, he develops a framework for understanding play, introducing a set of critical tools that can help analyze games and game designs and identify ways in which they succeed or fail. He considers the making of meaning in play and in every aspect of human culture. He draws on findings in pragmatic epistemology, neuroscience, and semiotics to describe how meaning emerges from playful engagement. Upton argues that play can also explain particular aspects of narrative; a play-based interpretive stance, he proposes, can help us understand the structure of books, of music, of theater, of art, and even of the process of critical engagement itself. --Edited summary from book.GamesPsychological aspectsGamesRulesPsychological aspectsPlayPsychological aspectsGAME STUDIES/Game HistoryPHILOSOPHY/AestheticsSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media StudiesGamesPsychological aspects.GamesRulesPsychological aspects.PlayPsychological aspects.793.01Upton Brian1964-1541082OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910797053103321The aesthetic of play3793047UNINA