{"id":12067,"date":"2015-07-27T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/definitions-limiting-or-liberating-as-i-said\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:25:48","slug":"definitions-limiting-or-liberating-as-i-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/definitions-limiting-or-liberating-as-i-said\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Definitions: Limiting or liberating?<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I think we are in a general post-structural epoch wherein it is easy to think of definitions as limiting, or even dangerous. The latter view arguably comes in part from Foucault, usually cited for the argument that categorizations, definitions and labels by themselves are oppressive. For Foucault\u2019s central examples of gender and sexual identity, this is quite convincing of course, but it\u2019s a complex discussion outside my expertise.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>For the definition of games, I think it\u2019s important to note that games, like corporations, just aren\u2019t people. Yet we can still have situations where the games of certain communities are excluded because they don\u2019t fit a particular conception of games (some people feel this is happening with Twine games).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/what-is-a-game-redux\">What is a Game redux | The Ludologist<\/a>\u00a0Jesper Juul<\/p>\n<p>Juul shares a useful meditation on the question of defining the word-concept\u00a0\u201cgame\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitions: Limiting or liberating? As I said, I think we are in a general post-structural epoch wherein it is easy to think of definitions as limiting, or even dangerous. The latter view arguably comes in part from Foucault, usually cited for the argument that categorizations, definitions and labels by themselves are oppressive. For Foucault\u2019s central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-38D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067","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=12067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}