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#homo-ludens
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Reading group: Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, starting with ‘Nature and Significance of Play’
My father kept Zhuangzi on his shelf unread for forty years. I am trying not to do the same with Huizinga, so I'd like company. Homo Ludens (1938) argues that play is older than culture, since animals play without anyone teaching them,…
Started by Liu Jianguo5 replies188 views -
Capoeira is a game, a fight, a dance and a memory: which of Caillois’s boxes does it go in?
In capoeira Angola we don't say we fight. We say we play: jogar capoeira. Two people enter the roda, the circle of players and musicians, and the berimbau sets the pace. Somebody once told me Huizinga thought play was older than culture,…
Started by Jorge Nascimento5 replies259 views