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“If Hard proves to be not hard enough for you, you can go “Hardcore,” which means that if you die, you stay dead. That is very hardcore indeed, as Heidegger once observed.”
― How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft
― How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft
“To say that the phenomena of his world are routine and fairly predictable is to say that Steve’s world is governed by laws of nature. His laws are certainly not our laws. For instance, he can place a block of dirt, set another block on top of it, and then chop out the first block, and the second one will remain suspended in the air. Source blocks of water or lava will continuously produce water or lava, seemingly ex nihilo. Torches burn forever. But though all this seems magical to us, it is perfectly natural to Steve. It is how his world works, and he can rely on its own patterns of regularity. To be governed by laws of nature is not necessarily to be governed by our laws of nature; any laws, so long as they are laws, will do.”
― How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft
― How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft
“The world interior of capital is not an agora or a trade fair beneath the open sky, but rather a hothouse that has drawn inwards everything that was once on the outside. The bracing climate of an integral inner world of commodity can be formulated in the notion of a planetary palace of consumption. In this horizontal Babylon, being human becomes a question of spending power, and the meaning of freedom is exposed in the ability to choose between products for the market - or to create such products oneself.”
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