Games Cultures

A game is made up of rules, various outcomes, value is assigned to possible outcomes and the players effort and attachment to the outcome (the need to win)

Liestol (2004) says that when the noun "gameplay" is formed from combining the two words game and play, it forms the meaning of the process that happens when a game is played.

The Limits of technical rationality

A lot of the 20th century thought on modernity is based on a negative view that gained its expression from Max Webers theory of rationalisation. According to him, modernity is made because of the increasing role of calculation and control in society. He regarded this later as the "iron cage"

This idea of "enslavement" encourages negative "philosophies of technology" saying that humans have become parts of a machines, which serves in the same way as raw materials and the natural enviroment.