Logic Magazine, Issue 6: Play

by Ben Tarnoff (Editor), Moira Weigel (Editor), Alex Blasdel (Editor)

Play is older than culture. Culture needs human society, whereas animals play all the time. The origins of computers also lie in play—code-breaking and imitation games. Today, the gaming industry makes over one hundred billion dollars per year and we gamify everything from exercise to sex to sleep to crowdsourced scientific work. In the era of “do what you love,” the lines between work and play, pleasure and labor, blur.

240 pages

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Ben Tarnoff is a tech worker, writer, and co-founder of Logic Magazine. His most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—and How They Do It, co-authored with Moira Weigel. He has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Republic, and Jacobin.

Reviews

[Wendy Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific issue. Standout articles include those by Sarah Mason and Kevin T. Baker. The interviews are all fantastic, too.