{"product_id":"games-9781932698442","title":"Games","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sina Najafi | Wayne Koestenbaum\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Annuals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells' \"Floor Games\"; D. Graham Burnett on games played by game theorists; Barbara Levine and Jessica Helfand on dexterity games; James Trainor on the lost world of \"adventure\" playgrounds; Dana Katz on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's \"Oblique Strategies\"; an interview with Bertell Ollman, inventor of the board game \"Class Struggle\"; and Jeff Dolven on poems as games. Elsewhere in the issue: Helen Larsson on the history of applause; Wayne Koestenbaum's legendary \"Legend\" column; Naomi Muller on eating the zoo animals in Berlin during World War II; Jeremy Crichton on \"spite\" houses; and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabinet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969638252695,"sku":"9781932698442","price":824.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781932698442.webp?v=1782922995","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/games-9781932698442","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}