{"585866":{"#nid":"585866","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Paradox About Play That Can Make You A Better Creative in 2017","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, had his book \u003Cem\u003EPlay Anything\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;reviewed in \u0026ldquo;The Paradox About Play That Can Make You A Better Creative in 2017\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFast Company.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a world where creative hyphenates have become the norm, game designer-philosopher Ian Bogost stands out. His most famous game,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECow Clicker\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bogost.com\/games\/cow_clicker\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebegan as an impish parody of Facebook games\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFarmville\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;but\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2011\/12\/ff_cowclicker\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etook on non-ironic life of its own\u003C\/a\u003E. He\u0026rsquo;s written\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bogost.com\/books\/10_print_chr2055rnd1_goto_10\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea book-length appreciation of a single line of BASIC code\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bogost.com\/books\/alien-phenomenology\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea metaphysical monograph about the inner lives of burritos\u003C\/a\u003E. Now with his latest book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPlay Anything\u003C\/em\u003E, Bogost applies his\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=catholic+definition+nonreligious\u0026amp;oq=catholic+definition+nonreligious\u0026amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.3598j0j9\u0026amp;sourceid=chrome\u0026amp;ie=UTF-8#safe=active\u0026amp;q=catholic+definition\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecatholic\u003C\/a\u003Eintelligence to the phenonemon of philosophical life-hacking. Think game design meets confessional memoir meets\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/markmanson.net\/this-is-water\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;This Is Water\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;meets\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tidyingup.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMarie Kondo\u003C\/a\u003E, with a dash of \u0026quot;here\u0026rsquo;s what\u0026rsquo;s wrong and\/or right with our entire culture\u0026quot; polemicism thrown in, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3067036\/the-paradox-about-play-that-can-make-you-a-better-creative-in-2017\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-01-11 18:17:30","changed_gmt":"2017-01-23 17:00:18","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"St. Olaf College","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3067036\/the-paradox-about-play-that-can-make-you-a-better-creative-in-2017","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=1Az_4YGj"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}