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2019 |
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abstract |
I argue that the apparently exclusive choice between Suits’ utopia of gameplay and
death by suicide is a false dilemma, one which obscures a ‘third way’ of positive
boredom. Further, I offer a deeper reading of the internal logic of Suits’ utopian
vision, identifying two different temporal phases of his utopia. At time U<sub>1</sub>,
just after the founding of Suits’ techno-Cockaygne, the Alexandrian condition affects
‘freshmen’ utopians by producing a state of existential meaninglessness and thereby
conceivably motivating utopian suicide. At time U<sub>2</sub>, however, sufficient
time will have passed for the surviving ‘sophomore’ utopians to adopt marvelous, meaning-generative
utopian games as a tool for defeating the Alexandrian condition and thus realizing
Suits ‘ideal of existence’ in a utopia of gameplay. |
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authors |
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3-4 |
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published |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/876397 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/876414 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/876415 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/876416 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/876417 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/876418 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/877482 |
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13 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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Yorke, Christopher C. (2019). ‘The Alexandrian Condition’: Suits on Boredom,
Death, and Utopian Games. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Early Access). |
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label |
Yorke, Christopher C. (2019). ‘The Alexandrian Condition’: Suits on Boredom, Death,
and Utopian Games. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 13(3-4) pp. 363–371. |
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ext-82d97d3d46da72def3ef996d0ad0810c |
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Title |
‘The Alexandrian Condition’: Suits on Boredom, Death, and Utopian Games |
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oro |