Subject :
Games and the Art of Agency
Calendar:
Campus General
Date :
March 02 2018
Time :
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location :
Ross 136


Description:

The Auburn Aesthetics Forum is hosting a two day micro-conference on Friday, March 2 the talk will be “Games and the Art of Agency,” and will be held in Ross 136 at 3 p.m.
 
The talks are sponsored by both the Department Philosophy and the Auburn Aesthetics Forum and are free and open to all.
 
"Games and the Art of Agency" Matthew Strohl (Montana) 

Some games constitute a distinctive art form, whose medium is agency. Those games offer us the opportunity to temporarily manipulate basic features of our practical agency, taking on temporary ends and temporary abilities. This allows for a distinctive aesthetic form, in which designers create agencies and environments for the sake of aesthetic experiences of the player’s practical reasoning and practical action. The fact that we can play such games illuminates a distinctive human capacity. We can take on ends temporarily, for the sake of the experience of pursuing them. But though such temporary ends are adopted instrumentally, we cannot treat them as such during game-play. In order to sustain the absorbed and committed experiences characteristic of game-play, we must entertain these temporary in-game ends as final. Playing games requires that we adopt temporary sub-agencies. Thus, game-playing demonstrates a significant fluidity of human agency.
 
 

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