
Games and Its Mission
This piece was originally published as the cover article in The Intellectual Weekly, and was slightly revised at the time of publication; here I am posting the original draft. It was written before the “opium theory,” so its appearance now is actually rather apt. But by the time I was writing it, I had already consciously trimmed back many of the directions the discussion might have taken, and it felt like I hadn’t written it with enough freedom. I had originally planned to revise it again and submit it for the phenomenology and philosophy of technology conference, but the conference was postponed because of the pandemic, so I never went…
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