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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Certain games


"The world teaches us that certain games cannot be played." 

--from introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein

2 comments:

  1. I'm very curious about this thought about unplayable games. Does your reproduction of it indicate that you find it apt, simply evocative, or something else, I wonder?

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  2. I guess I thought it was both apt and evocative. It made me think that perhaps that's what art does (or can do)-- construct and play the unplayable games, or at least hint at the possibility.

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