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His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.
This comment makes me think about the way we now use an array of apps to create the appearance of beautiful lives, filtering the awkward and ugly moments out of our online profiles. Perhaps it would be "heraldic" for us to eschew this easy self-amending, but would we achieve reward for such a move, if we did not have a super-powerful AI ready to shove piles of money into our bank accounts at the end of it al?
“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness.”
― Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
― Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
“Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.”
― Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
― Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
“Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.”
― Ritual, Politics, and Power
― Ritual, Politics, and Power
“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.”
― Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
― Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
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