Discursive Game Research Articles

Sobre incompatibilidade e estranhamento: o enunciado da cristofobia e suas escalas de sentido em charges online

ABSTRACT In this article, I propose a dialogical analysis of five online cartoons which reverberate the discourse of the former president of Brazil (2019-2022) at the UN in September 2020, when he called the international community to combat Christphobia. Named after the same term, the cartoons present a framework of interdiscursive antagonism between Christian and the former President of Brazil’s fanatic followers’ positions. Assuming that cartoons are a privileged discursive genre for understanding the dialogical resonances between interlocutors and discourses, this work approaches Christphobia as a responsive utterance in terms of scales of meaning. From the analysis, one can see a discursive game of incompatibility and estrangement, that makes room to a Christophobic “Other” in opposition to a persecuted “minority us,” as once presented during the UN discourse. There is an emphasis on a perception of religious intolerance as a result of the political agenda of the former president of Brazil’s religious-ideological alignment.

‘Thinking Through’ Games in the Classroom: Using Discursive Game Design to Play and Engage with Historical Datasets

In this contribution, we outline Discursive Game Design (DGD) as a practice-based educational framework, explain how to use this design framework to teach game historiography, and report on findings from a series of in-class experiments. Using Nandeck, a freely available software tool for card game prototyping, we created sets of playing cards based on two game-historical datasets. Students were then asked to prototype simple games with these card decks; both playtesting and co-creating each other’s games in an ongoing quasi-conversational process between different student groups fostered discussions on, and produced alternative insights into, the complex notion of (Dutch) game history, canonization/selection and games as national cultural heritage. The article shows how DGD can be implemented to allow for students with little or no design background to actively ‘think through’ games about the subject matter at hand.

Taking Playful Scholarship Seriously: Discursive Game Design as a Means of Tackling Intractable Controversies

The article at hand explores the concept of playful scholarship, focusing specifically on the use of playfulness in re-assessing the collaboration between academia and societal partners to tackle “intractable policy controversies” (Schön and Rein 1994, p. 23)—i.e., challenges in which opposing parties operate with conflicting frames (often without even noticing). After arguing that earlier attempts at using games in academia often only evoke the rhetoric rather than the spirit of play (Sicart 2014) and thereby limit spaces for actually playful scholarship, we emphasize how the heuristic of playful game design (rather than game play) can help address this issue.To illustrate our point, we draw on a recent research project about drug policies in the Netherlands, in which concerns of (among others) law enforcement, policy-makers and healthcare workers are characteristically entangled. In this project, we first we defined the societal context of drug policies as an “ecology of games” (Long 1958; Lubell 2013) and proposed two ‘base games’—one created from scratch and the other inspired by the CIA-developed card game Collection Deck. These games were iteratively played by a diverse group of academic and non-academic stakeholders using self-modifying rules that allowed participants themselves to engage in “playful design” (Flanagan 2014), changing, adding or removing rules in order to identify where the game-as-model deviated from their lived experience (and how they might translate their experiences into the ‘language’ of the game). Drawing on ethnographic data collected over the course of six months, we investigate how the contingent ‘versions’ of the game as boundary objects (Leigh Star 2010) facilitated a playful attitude towards the otherwise characteristically entrenched discourse on Dutch drug policies.As a basic frame of reference, we use and adapt Lieberman’s original definition of playfulness, based on “physical, social, and cognitive spontaneity, manifest joy, and sense of humor” (2014, p. 23), and Shen’s differentiation between “situations for play” (2020, p. 540) and “playful states” (2020, p. 542) to interpret the processes in our community of practice. More specifically, we observe the impact of playful objects and object play (Riede et al. 2018) as well as bricolage (Antonijevic and Cahoy 2018) on playful attitudes within the group. This showed the constant tension between, on the one hand, expectations that the game itself should ‘produce’ new insights and, on the other, as Sicart recommends, “carnivalesque” (2014, p. 23) attempts at resisting ‘utilitarian’ play (e.g., exploring ideas that would be ruled out by conventional wisdom as optional in-game scenarios or events).Finally, we conclude with how adopting a playful game designer’s rather than a player’s perspective may challenge habitualized practices and corresponding roles inherent in public-private partnerships within academia. This makes different preconceptions amongst stakeholders visible, facilitates perspective change, and acknowledges the interconnected frames within intractable controversies by continually re-designing the base games.

ТРАНСДИСЦИПЛИНАРНОЕ ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ЧЕЛОВЕКА: ОПОРЫ И КОЛЛИЗИИ

The transdisciplinary approach to studying the problem of human appears to be the most natural and productive starting point for the situation that modern philosophy finds itself in. In the paper, the problem of human is considered as a paradoxical weird problem directly related to the global problems of our time. In this case, what appears to be an alternative to problem-solving is problematization, which reveals hidden opportunities and existing relationships between different fields of meanings. The question of the method, foundations of integration was brewing over the «long 20th century» simultaneously with the proclamation of the end of fundamental pillars (God, science, history, man), which led to a situation of exhaustion of world outlooks and forced «preconceptionlessness». Overcoming this crisis, cognition is now moving into the trans- and meta- positions, where the opportunities for construction and new paths for syntheses open up. Not only the scientific and philosophical ethos, but the need to involve a wide range of people in the practice of study of human nature requires clarity: transdisciplinarity is not a mere popular intellectual trend (speculative program, discursive game), but an effective method that can work with radicalization, social restrictions, dead ends, etc. The search for ontological foundations and integration with various forms of cultural experience lead «trans-science» to metaphysical problems and the experience of the sacred, the recognition of the role of discourse as the creative being; then the testing of limits needs to be coupled with moderate epistemological conservatism. In its theoretical foundation, transdisciplinarity is based on the effects of self-organization, self-development, and self-learning, which requires the provision of conditions for the production of syntheses and competent trust in the process, which cannot be reduced to the expectation of a miraculous appearance of Deus ex machina. Exploring the paradoxical collisions of transdisciplinarity, it is proposed to consider its rootedness as a historical phenomenon.

Making data playable: A game co-creation method to promote creative data literacy

This article explores how making data playable, i.e. developing exploratory co-creation techniques that use elements of play and games to interpret small to mid-sized datasets beyond the current focus on visual evidence, can help a) promote creative data literacy in higher education, and b) expand existing definitions of data literacy. The article briefly investigates playful characteristics in existing data practices, and discusses how this perspective compares to existing frameworks that define data literacy. In a second step, we present a Discursive Game Design technique to promote creative data literacy. The article reports on findings from a sample workshop, during which students explored how modifying small, hybrid games based on real-world datasets can alter players’ interpretation of the data, but also their perception of how the games operate as epistemic objects within data analysis. Finally, we formulate recommendations on how to adapt the technique to different educational settings.

"Mornas eram as noites" e "Mulheres Sagradas": uma travessia transatlântica entre Dina Salústio e Aidil Araújo Lima

O presente artigo propõe uma leitura analítica das obras Mulheres Sagradas da brasileira Aidil Araújo Lima e Mornas eram as noites, da cabo-verdiana Dina Salústio. O objetivo é propor um diálogo entre essas duas escritoras negras. A fundamentação parte da noção de ‘escrevivência’ proposta por Conceição Evaristo, além de proposições teóricas sobre a literatura de autoria feminina negra. Há temas recorrentes nas narrativas das escritoras: as violências contra as mulheres, o insistente silenciamento imposto pelo machismo e pelos racismos cotidiano e estrutural. No entanto, essas narrativas propõem o enfrentamento, a quebra dessa estrutura marcada de poder e de subserviência. Seja pelo reconhecimento da ancestralidade ou do corpo como voz-escrita, essas escritoras colocam no jogo discursivo a percepção da própria subjetividade. Evidenciam um corpo-mulher marcado por insurreições e questionamentos ao se posicionarem como útero-sexo-política-discurso-poder. Além disso, as autoras dialogam com as vozes crioulas, ancestrais, sagradas e com outras vozes de mulheres irmãs, que questionam a condição da mulher na sociedade e realocam a escrita e o corpo de autoria feminina negra no cenário da literatura.

Sustainable Development and Ecological Modernization: Boundary Discourses between “Strong” and “Weak” Approaches

The concepts of “sustainable development” and “ecological modernization” are todays’ main discourses of action on the global environmental crisis. However, the quest of priorities interpretation within concepts is raised: there is a path dependence of the hegemonic worldview of techno-economic progress that was supposed to be overcome. The objective of this text is to analyse how this dependence influenced the evolution of such concepts and their operational proposals. Methodologically, the research is based on a literature review on discourses of these concepts. A typology of “strong” and “weak” discourses highlights the possibilities of “business as usual” in its operational interpretation as well as the ways to overcome it. The results show that the confrontation between them lead to a conceptual evolution of sustainable development and ecological modernization that merges into a common agenda: the governance of ambivalence between economic and social progress and environmental frontiers. The text concludes by proposing the existence of a discursive game between “survival” and “tranquillity”. This highlights an essential tension between environmental mitigation and institutional change that has accompanied the political agenda in the past 50 years. The resulting reflexive governance as a choice implies a broad participation in decision-making processes so that environmental trade-offs are collectively discussed, and responsibilities are shared. Notwithstanding, the article claims that this essential tension further implies questioning if governance may not also be a new discourse of appeasement and political unaccountability.

Нормативность технонауки и гуманитарная экспертиза технонаучных проектов

<p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">В статье предусмотрены различные элементы коммуникативного контура технонауки.</span></span></p><p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Сфера гуманитарной экспертизы, предполагающая обсуждение рисков технологии еще на ранних этапах ее разработки. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Во-первых, наиболее общий характер. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Во-вторых, реализация технонаучного проекта сопровождается «дискурсивной игрой», в рамках которой его участники приписывают друг другу обязательства и высказывают ожидания. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">В-третьих, возможности для организации поддержки предполагают, что общество должно быть мобилизовано для его поддержки.</span></span></p><p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Таким образом, в качестве важных задач гуманитарной экспертизы в статье обозначены: сопоставление высказанных участников проекта, ожидание и принятие на себя обязательств, рассмотрение способов конкретизации общих целей реализации проекта, интерпретация критериев успеха проекта.</span></span></p>

Концепция этоса технонауки Б. Г. Юдина и проблема технонаучной нормативности

<p>В настоящей статье технонаука рассматривается в предложенной Б. Г. Юдиным оптике в качестве консолидированного положительными обратными связями контура, включающего лабораторию, бизнес, общество и медиа. Под технонаучной нормативностью понимается совокупность способов взаимного приписывания обязательств и ответственности между участниками контура технонауки. Данные коммуникативные процессы служат одним из основных предметов рассмотрения в современной аналитической философии. При этом моделирование процессов приписывания обязательств в контуре технонауки требует расширения и дополнения предложенных аналитическими философами концепций рациональности и «дискурсивной игры» (Р. Брэндом). Также показано, что для концептуализации общественной поддержки технонаучных инициатив недостаточно представлений о потребительском выборе в рамках свободного рынка. Последние должны быть дополнены концептом ценностно-ориентированного потребительского поведения, понимаемого как финансовое и нефинансовое общественное инвестирование.</p><p>Одним из феноменов, наиболее важных для реконструкции технонаучной нормативности, является готовность социальных групп, составляющих элементы контура технонауки, к тому, что обещания представителей лаборатории и бизнеса, сформулированные на старте определенного проекта, не будут выполнены. При этом речь не только о готовности разделить бремя рисков венчурных инициатив, но о способности каждого агента технонаучного контура к локализации целей и обязательств на каждом конкретном этапе его развития. </p><p>Социальное поведение — готовность сообществ инвестировать в развитие контура технонауки — выступает и причиной, и результатом приписывания высказыванию о будущем роли обещания. Для того чтобы отличить обещание (как приписывание обязательств) от простой формулировки ожидаемого образа будущего, необходимо двояким образом оценить контекст высказывания. Во-первых, определить закончен ли стартовый, венчурный этап реализации проекта, в рамках которого артикулируются обещания. Во-вторых, определить, насколько они конкретны и обращены к конкретной социальной группе.</p>

Моделируя технонауку: от эпистемических сетей к дискурсивным играм

Моделируя технонауку: от эпистемических сетей к дискурсивным играм

Mytho-logic anthropology and discursive games of Gods in time stream

Is the thought a gift or bloody hell of the person? Involving in a discourse of «another» is accompanied by forming of a field of own senses. Senses come, but they are not born by own «I». But «a science way» (connected with external language games) or a self-immersing way (connected with meditational practice’s), actually, eliminated our own «I». The way (as would tell the Buddha, Moisej or the Christ, and presently M. Heidegger or M. Moss) is a gift. Such gift allows to reconstruct own human nature and to open «passes» (ways) to different measurement of existence of the person. All transitions between measurements connected systems of signs (or languages). In particular, the system of signs allows to transfer the Messiah gift to historical space by means of a myth or mythical and poetic text. Actually, those who put myths or established names, always occupied exclusive position in a society. Interpreters of Ancient Greek mythology asserted that the main gift of gods is fire; however, main gift of gods was the word and a name (language).In «Being and time» of M. Heidegger language is the house of being. The main thought consists that being is structured as language. According to the modern version of J. Lacan, unconscious is structured as language, and unconscious acts as hidden (unconscious) presence of another (or Another as higher Father-god), so language is found out as universal unity, the universal topos, connecting mental and, probably, spiritual space. Not only unconscious, but also spiritual (and mental) it is structured as language. S. Freud and J. Lacan have found out only private forms of a certain universal principle in which specifies creativity of structuralists and poststructuralists: all actively existing (living) is structured as language or is functional in the field of signs and symbols (in the field of language). Leaning Gegel’s and Neohegelians creativity, it can be asserted that Spirit, generating the dialectic negation – a matter, does not disappear, it is not transformed, and continues process of naming, being in other measurement. But the spirit is structured as another in the creation-naming. The mono-spirit is not enough for a birth of the world, the act of naming means presence of another.In search of a nature bases of modern philosophy A. Badiou tried to find a way of realisation of patrimonial procedures in synchronous (adhered to the present) space of human thought and open the essence modern (postmodern) multiplane and polymorphic culture and thought. Proceeding from A. Badiou’s creativity it is possible to conclude, errors in act of naming is very cost much to mankind.

Discursos midiáticos: o jogo discursivo em funcionamento no processo de validação de matérias de um jornal on-line do estado do Paraná

Neste estudo, propôs-se analisar o funcionamento do jogo discursivo no processo de validação de dizeres do jornal on-line Gazeta do Povo. Para isso, tomamos como base teórica e metodológica a Análise do Discurso (AD) francesa, em sua linha pecheutiana. Objetivou-se verificar quais recursos discursivos e textuais foram utilizados na construção da matéria principal “Tudo sobre a greve e a ocupação nas escolas do Paraná” e das matérias secundárias que estão ligadas à principal, as quais conduzem à produção de sentido e à validação dessas matérias. A análise possibilitou colocar em visibilidade um jogo discursivo que foi construído a partir da organização textual e de um movimento discursivo que ora valida os dizeres dos sujeitos jornalistas, ora valida os discursos da equipe de redação, ora valida a própria instituição, Gazeta do Povo.

Gesto autoral: fiador para experiências significativas no ensino de criação publicitária

Neste artigo, porção de um estudo longitudinal apoiado pelo MCTI/CNPq e realizado em parceria interinstitucional entre a UFPR, a UFPE e a UFSM, refletimos sobre possíveis dimensões para experiências significativas no ensino de criação publicitária: narrativas de si, distanciamento das práticas mercadológicas em publicidade, formação de repertório, ludicidade, personalização. Partindo de uma concepção discursiva, de orientação pecheutiana, operamos teoricamente com os conceitos de autoria e de lugar discursivo. Portanto, é sob a égide de tais noções que aglutinamos as discussões acerca de reconfigurações no ensino de criação publicitária, na instância dos sujeitos do conhecimento (professor e estudante). Defendemos que a prática docente proporcione situações de aprendizagem para deslizamentos de sentidos e para a inserção do estudante no jogo discursivo, afiançando experiências significativas por meio do gesto autoral.

<b>Do encontro da saúde com a educação: o escolanovismo e seus desdobramentos em debate

A presente investigação, apoiada em noções foucaultianas, tem como objetivo analisar os jogos discursivos sediados no encontro entre os campos da saúde e da pedagogia brasileiras a partir dos anos 1920, encontro este protagonizado, sobretudo, pelo escolanovismo. Para tanto, foram analisadas, no primeiro momento, algumas obras da coleção Bibliotheca de Educação a cargo de autores-chave do Movimento da Escola Nova, nas quais avulta o primado de que a cognição estaria subordinada a processos pertinentes à fisiologia cerebral. No segundo momento, procedeu-se à sondagem, num conjunto de periódicos educacionais contemporâneos, de estudos dedicados a criticar os vieses higienistas, ideológicos ou normativos supostamente inerentes ao escolanovismo, cujas análises mostraram-se cativas de uma abordagem denunciadora das relações de poder-saber ali vigentes, tendo estas, segundo os autores recenseados, gerado indefectíveis efeitos patologizantes às práticas escolares. À guisa de conclusão, aventou-se um giro analítico capaz de pôr em xeque abordagens apoiadas nas noções apriorísticas de desenvolvimento, esclarecimento e representação, em favor de reflexões voltadas ao jogo ininterrupto entre processos de subjetivação e políticas de veridicção que demarcam a atualidade educacional.

O PROFESSOR E O ALUNO COMO AGENTES DO DESENVOLVIMENTO DA LEITURA

Neste artigo, nos propomos a apresentar alguns apontamentos a respeito do desenvolvimento da leitura pelos alunos nas escolas. Partindo de uma concepção discursiva sobre a leitura, que leva em conta o jogo entre língua, condições de sua produção e sujeito, consideramos que tanto professores como alunos têm papel atuante nesse desenvolvimento. Nesse sentido, defendemos uma prática docente que ofereça possibilidades de deslizamentos de sentidose de inserção dos alunos no jogo discursivo.

A maternidade e a prostituição: uma análise discursiva de entrevistas com garotas de programa

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2016v13n2p1158A partir de entrevistas realizadas com quatro garotas de programa e com base no aporte teórico da Análise de Discurso de orientação francesa, este artigo coloca em discussão um dos argumentos apresentados para justificar a entrada na prostituição: os filhos. No jogo discursivo, as entrevistadas exaltam o lugar materno ocupado, descrevendo o quão boas mães são, tecendo a defesa da escolha que fizeram. Assim, a maternidade é usada como um redirecionamento discursivo, uma tentativa de apagar o lugar da prostituta ocupado, intensificando discursivamente o sacrifício materno realizado. Entretanto, apesar do aparente controle dos sentidos, a contradição, constitutiva da linguagem, se instala e outros sentidos escapam.

Reading with Guns: Institutions of Interpretation and District of Columbia v. Heller

Described as ‘the most explicitly and self-consciously originalist opinion in the history of the [United States] Supreme Court’, District of Columbia v. Heller, decided in 2008 on a 5/4 split, embodies many of the central problems of a historically oriented legal hermeneutics. Antonin Scalia’s invocation of an unchanging constitutional text and a purity of reconstruction of an original meaning belies the intensity of social and political interests that inform the judicial decision-making process. This paper looks at the interpretive principles at stake in the controversy over the court’s account of the Second Amendment’s deeply ambiguous enunciation of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Against the historicism that constitutes the unexamined norm of originalist interpretation, I argue that texts have no privileged “original meaning” but change their meanings as they acquire new purposes and uses. Second, I seek to specify the institutional underpinnings of the regime of interpretation that effects the translation of past texts into present structures of interest. In the broad sense in which I define it here, the interpretive regime is not just a matter of the rules of a discursive game but is effected by a mix of material, political, and disciplinary infrastructures that make those rules binding upon a particular interpretive community. Finally, I examine the play of blindness and insight that constitutes, in this case and more generally, the rhetorical condition of possibility for the establishment of a truth which then defines and enacts a reality.

Hybrid Affects of Religious Nationalism: Pilgrimages to Kosovo and the Soundscapes of the Utopian Past

In this paper I analyze the contemporary practice of Serbian pilgrimages to Kosovo, which have been on the rise in the aftermath of the Kosovo Declaration of Independence. Designating the Serbian pilgrimage to Kosovo as ahybridaffective experience, I investigate how sentiments of religion and nation interact through the media of sound and music, pointing out the role of the shared lived experience of the community. I discuss how affects, which are alternately produced by the social machines of religion and of nation, become hybridized and synergistically reinforcedin situ, not only relying on discursive games and strategies, but also on the immediacy of the lived ‘truth’. I emphasize in particular the role of musical experience in this process, showing how music activates mnemonic processes and provokes affects in the community as it is uncritically inscribed on the bodies of the individuals through both communal music-listening and music-making.

VIOLÊNCIA E DISCURSO: AGRESSÃO VERBAL E TRABALHO DOCENTE NA EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA

The study on canvas part of an empirical research supported by a brief literature review , with the aim to discuss the violence suffered by teachers in basic education or as a result of the performance of their work activities , focusing on the analysis of the statements taken as verbal aggression , understanding that this discourse of aggression mobilizes an understanding about teaching that deserves to be portrayed . To take account of this questioning , the text bolsters in an empirical study that examined 20 reports on verbal aggression suffered by the teacher, aired in two weekly newspapers of national circulation , between the years 2001 and 2011 , using as support the Analysis of speech materialistic stream or the French line. In conclusion it is considered that there are aspects of undeniable violence in the reports transmitted by the articles analyzed . However , their analysis can contribute to erect another point of view in relation to verbal violence against the teacher . She can outsource a significant discursive game that passes through questioning ( explicit or implicit ) of the very condition of the school as an institution of discursive production .

The relative native

The relative native