GAME 2750 Lecture 10: GAME 2750-The Grasshopper Chp.8
10 Mar 2017
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Reading: the grasshopper chapter 8 end https://speculativechindogu. wordpress. com/2015/05/21/the-grasshopper-game-studies-classic- summarized-recontextualized/ The grasshopper: games, life and utopia is a 178-page treatise on a philosophical definition of games written in the form of socratic dialog/hegelian dialectic. The eponymous grasshopper is the character from aesop"s fables, specifically the story where the ant gathers food all summer while the grasshopper plays and when winter comes the ant eats and the grasshopper dies. It is the end of summer and grasshopper meets for the last time with his pupils. The pupils offer to provide food and shelter for him over for the winter but grasshopper maintains that he must live according to his philosophy it is the nature of grasshopper to be improvident in the summer. He offers that if there were no winters then he would be vindicated. As grasshopper dies, he describes a recurring dream. In this dream everyone in the world plays elaborate games which mirror real professions.
