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“A group’s preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.”

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“Critical play means to create or occupy play environments and activities that represent one or more questions about aspects of human life . . . . Criticality in play can be fostered in order to question an aspect of a game’s 'content,' or an aspect of a play scenario’s function that might otherwise be considered a given or necessary.”

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“Games are legitimate forms of media, human expression, and cultural importance”

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“Critical play is characterized by a careful examination of social, cultural, political, or even personal themes that function as alternates to popular play spaces.”

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“know my little request, with the sweet end of time held in my mouth the heartbeat slows under the skin of the world cut and changed forever”

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“leaves still cling to the trees, but the sun is telling them to drop dead.”

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“The enactment of critical play exhibits at least three kinds of action: unplaying, re-dressing or reskinning, and rewriting.”

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“The phenomenon of play is local: that is, while the phenomenon of play is universal, the experience of play is intrinsically tied to location and culture.”

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“Above all, a game is an opportunity, an easy- to-understand instrument by which context is defamiliarized just enough to allow what Huizinga famously refers to as his “a magic circle” of play to occur.”

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“What if some games, and the more general concept of ‘play,’ not only provide outlets for entertainment but also function as means for creative expression, as instruments for conceptual thinking, or as tools to help examine or work through social issues.”

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