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    August 01, 2003

    No Innovation Without RepresentationEmail This EntryPrint This Article

    By By Pat Kane I'm always keen to expand what we mean by play, moving beyond the usual Puritan cliches of triviality and frivolity. And the capacity of science to give us the power to play with matter and biology...

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    July 30, 2003

    To the victor, the paradoxesEmail This EntryPrint This Article

    By Pat Kane It would be easy to look at sports as a somewhat ethically-limited zone of play. It dominates our media spectacle, some might say, exactly because it provides us with an illusion of clarity and finality. Our tribe’s...

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    July 29, 2003

    "Quirky, Flexible, Redundant": the Being and Becoming of PlayEmail This EntryPrint This Article

    By Pat Kane In my investigations into the sources for a possible ""play ethic", I've found a schema from the Pennsylvanian educational psychologist Brian Sutton-Smith to be outstandingly productive. The blurb from his 1997 book, The Ambiguity of Play, sets...

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    July 28, 2003

    Play Ethics and NeurosocietyEmail This EntryPrint This Article

    By Pat Kane [As promised, Pat Kane, author of the forthcoming book "The Play Ethic: Living Creatively in the New Century (MacMillan 2004),  is guest-blogging on Brain Waves this week as Zack Lynch begins the heavy lifting of writing a book of his own.] It’s...

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