{"product_id":"games-9781932698442-new","title":"Games","description":"In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells' \"Floor Games\"; D. Graham Burnett on games played by game theorists; Barbara Levine and Jessica Helfand on dexterity games; James Trainor on the lost world of \"adventure\" playgrounds; Dana Katz on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's \"Oblique Strategies\"; an interview with Bertell Ollman, inventor of the board game \"Class Struggle\"; and Jeff Dolven on poems as games. Elsewhere in the issue: Helen Larsson on the history of applause; Wayne Koestenbaum's legendary \"Legend\" column; Naomi Muller on eating the zoo animals in Berlin during World War II; Jeremy Crichton on \"spite\" houses; and much more.","brand":"CABINET","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67612282585378,"sku":"9781932698442-new","price":13.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781932698442.jpg?v=1793078034","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/games-9781932698442-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}