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2016/07/11

Platform Studies, Computational Essentialism, and Magic: The Gathering

The new issue of Analog Game Studies is out now. Among other articles, it also includes my essay Platform Studies, Computational Essentialism, and Magic: The Gathering, in which I deal with the social and culutral aspects of the game and contest the platform studies framework that often takes such social forces for granted and emphasizes hardware and software aspects of platforms.
tags: magic the gathering, platform studies
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