C. Thi Nguyen as of July 2020 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on how social structures and technology can shape our rationality and our agency. He has published on trust, expertise, group agency, community art, cultural appropriation, aesthetic value, echo chambers, moral outrage porn, and games. He received his PhD from UCLA. Once, he was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. He tweets at @add_hawk.

• Chapter 1: Agency as art PART I: GAMES AND AGENCYChapter 2: The possibility of striving playChapter 3: Layers of agencyChapter 4: Games and autonomy PART II: AGENCY AND ARTChapter 5: The aesthetics of agencyChapter 6: Framed agencyChapter 7: The distance in the game PART III: SOCIAL AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 8: Games as social transformationChapter 9: Gamification and value captureChapter 10: The value of striving

This book is a total joy to read. Thi Nguyen's energy radiates from every page -- the prose is truly delightful, with all sorts of poetic turns of phrase enlivening the arguments and a whole world of games vibrantly described in rich detail. Indeed, if you're sceptical that games could be art, it may be because your game playing is limited to the likes of chess and gin rummy, and you are totally unaware, as I was until reading this book, of the incredible richness of the world of games.

C. Thi Nguyen as of July 2020 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on how social structures and technology can shape our rationality and our agency. He has published on trust, expertise, group agency, community art, cultural appropriation, aesthetic value, echo chambers, moral outrage porn, and games. He received his PhD from UCLA. Once, he was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. He tweets at @add_hawk.

• Chapter 1: Agency as art PART I: GAMES AND AGENCYChapter 2: The possibility of striving playChapter 3: Layers of agencyChapter 4: Games and autonomy PART II: AGENCY AND ARTChapter 5: The aesthetics of agencyChapter 6: Framed agencyChapter 7: The distance in the game PART III: SOCIAL AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 8: Games as social transformationChapter 9: Gamification and value captureChapter 10: The value of striving

This book is a total joy to read. Thi Nguyen's energy radiates from every page -- the prose is truly delightful, with all sorts of poetic turns of phrase enlivening the arguments and a whole world of games vibrantly described in rich detail. Indeed, if you're sceptical that games could be art, it may be because your game playing is limited to the likes of chess and gin rummy, and you are totally unaware, as I was until reading this book, of the incredible richness of the world of games.

C. Thi Nguyen as of July 2020 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on how social structures and technology can shape our rationality and our agency. He has published on trust, expertise, group agency, community art, cultural appropriation, aesthetic value, echo chambers, moral outrage porn, and games. He received his PhD from UCLA. Once, he was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. He tweets at @add_hawk.

• Chapter 1: Agency as art PART I: GAMES AND AGENCYChapter 2: The possibility of striving playChapter 3: Layers of agencyChapter 4: Games and autonomy PART II: AGENCY AND ARTChapter 5: The aesthetics of agencyChapter 6: Framed agencyChapter 7: The distance in the game PART III: SOCIAL AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 8: Games as social transformationChapter 9: Gamification and value captureChapter 10: The value of striving

This book is a total joy to read. Thi Nguyen's energy radiates from every page -- the prose is truly delightful, with all sorts of poetic turns of phrase enlivening the arguments and a whole world of games vibrantly described in rich detail. Indeed, if you're sceptical that games could be art, it may be because your game playing is limited to the likes of chess and gin rummy, and you are totally unaware, as I was until reading this book, of the incredible richness of the world of games.