When an activity becomes a practice, it shifts from something that you are doing at a point in time to an ongoing process of becoming. James Carse, a professor of history and religion at New York University, called this kind of practice an “infinite game.” In his underground classic Finite and Infinite Games, Carse writes that a finite game is one that will be won or lost, that will come to a definite end. An infinite game, however, as its name suggests, is ongoing. The whole purpose is to keep playing.
