This episode of Weird Studies is one of the best things on the topics of [[Game]] and [[Play]] that I have come across recently:
https://www.weirdstudies.com/117
There is so much to unpack in this episode, just starting from the Heraclitus fragment quote is enough:
'"Time is a child at play.."
They have also included a very interesting list of references:
**Some greatest hits:**
Roger Caillois, *Man, Play, and Games*
Johan Huizinga, *Homo Ludens*
Ludwig Wittgenstein, *Philosophical Investigations*
BF Skinner, American psychologist
Eduardo Vivieros de Castro, *Cannibal Metaphysics*
**Some new finds that I will be looking into:**
Bernard Suits, *The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia*
Jobe Bittman, *The Book of Antitheses*
C. Thi Nguyen, *Games: Agency as Art*
**And some timeless ones:**
Heraclitus, *Fragments*