Comments on: Steadily adding links to other research projects

By: michiel

michiel — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:15:23 +0000

Hi Reinder,
Good to hear from you. Coincidentally, I have just ordered that book a few days ago at BOL.com, because I’d like to read some more about the theme of ‘flow’. It is also mentioned in one of Victor Turner’s essays called “Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual” (in “From Ritual to Theatre: the human seriousness of play”, 1982). In this essay Turner explores the state of liminality (or ‘liminoid’ as he likes to call it when talking about ‘non-primitive’ peoples) and the intensification of experience that goes along with it, just like in a state of ‘flow’. It is also linked with ‘play’ in several aspects, because it entails a “suspension of disbelief”, it is only rewarding in itself, and it involves spontaneity.

By: ReindeR Rustema

ReindeR Rustema — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:21:06 +0000

These four points immediately brings the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to mind. Recommended reading because of his concept of ‘Flow’, a state of mind people achieve when they do things they like and can do well. This concept is the opposite of these four old fashioned points.

How do I paste a clickable link? I tried it a dozen times, but it is not accepted it seems.

By: torill

torill — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:34:14 +0000

I’ll see what I can do

By: michiel

michiel — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:31:38 +0000

Yes, maybe you are right, it’s about time I go play myself. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy… The focus of my research will be on mobile technologies, so maybe I will start playing mobile games. But online RPG’s sound interesting too. Perhaps you can introduce me into a guild :)?

By: torill

torill — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:46:49 +0000

Playful identities? And not playing? Ever thought about getting into WOW, on the horde side, on the Moonglade server, European? Perhaps making a mage, hunter, warlock or druid? Into a guild of game researchers and their fans and friends?

Just asking…