{"id":11748,"date":"2015-08-27T01:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/seven-rhetorics-of-play-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-27T01:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T01:05:07","slug":"seven-rhetorics-of-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/seven-rhetorics-of-play-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven rhetorics of play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/playforfuture.tumblr.com\/post\/98715224833\">playforfuture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Brian Sutton-Smith in \u2018The Ambiguity of Play\u2019 defines seven rhetorics (myths or ways of seeing play in society). The rhetorics are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as progress:<\/strong>\u00a0This rhetoric focuses on the developmental aspects of play and on the notion that children learn through play. The rhetoric is also linked to studies of animal play.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as fate:<\/strong>\u00a0This normally refers to games of chance and gambling, and rests on the assumption that human lives are controlled by destiny.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as power:<\/strong>\u00a0This rhetoric is associated with sports and contests, and Sutton-Smith suggests that it is an ancient rhetoric, as old as patriarchy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as identity:<\/strong>\u00a0Here, play is viewed as a means of constructing and confirming social identities through community celebrations and festivals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as imaginary:<\/strong>\u00a0This rhetoric relates to the imagination, creativity and innovation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as the self:<\/strong>\u00a0This normally refers to individual playful pursuits and hobbies, where play is seen as a form of relaxation and escape from everyday life.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Play as frivolous:<\/strong>\u00a0This rhetoric is usually applied to activities of the historical figures of tricksters and fools; it refers to the activities of people who playfully protest against the social and cultural order of everyday life.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personally, the one that holds firm in my mind is Play as Imaginary, and to a certain extent, Play as Identity (but only through the imaginary).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>playforfuture: Brian Sutton-Smith in \u2018The Ambiguity of Play\u2019 defines seven rhetorics (myths or ways of seeing play in society). The rhetorics are as follows: Play as progress:\u00a0This rhetoric focuses on the developmental aspects of play and on the notion that children learn through play. The rhetoric is also linked to studies of animal play. Play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-33u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}