{"id":1745,"date":"2013-03-13T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2013-03-13T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:41:39","slug":"art-of-failure-talk-cms-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2013\/03\/13\/art-of-failure-talk-cms-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Failure talk at Comparative Media Studies, MIT, March 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am giving a talk on the\u00a0Art of Failure<\/a>\u00a0this Thursday March 14 2013 at 5-7 PM, at Comparative Media Studies, MIT.<\/p>\n

Location: 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA\u00a0<\/span>Google Map<\/a>.\u00a0Room:\u00a0E14-633<\/a><\/p>\n

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Presented as part of\u00a0MIT Comparative Media Studies\u2019 Colloquium series<\/a>\u00a0for Spring 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

We often talk of video games as being \u201cfun,\u201d but this is a mistake. When we play video games, our facial expressions are only occasionally those of of happiness, instead we frown and grimace when fail to achieve our goals. This is the paradox of failure: why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy?<\/p>\n

In video games, as in tragic works of art, literature, theater, and cinema, it seems that we want to experience unpleasantness even if we also dislike it. Yet failure in a game is unique in that when we fail in a game, it means that we (not a character) are in some way inadequate, and games then motivate us to play more, in order to escape that inadequacy.<\/p>\n

In this talk, based on his new book\u00a0The Art of Failure<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Jesper Juul<\/a>\u00a0will argue that the paradox of failure pervades games on many levels: in game design, in sports coaching, in strategy guides, in taunting, in the prejudices against sore losers. The issue of failure is also central to recurring controversies of what games can, or should be about: what does it mean to cause terrible events to happen in a fictional game world? Games, then are the Art of Failure: the singular art form that sets us up for failure and allows us to experience it and experiment with it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am giving a talk on the\u00a0Art of Failure\u00a0this Thursday March 14 2013 at 5-7 PM, at Comparative Media Studies, MIT. Location: 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA\u00a0Google Map.\u00a0Room:\u00a0E14-633 Presented as part of\u00a0MIT Comparative Media Studies\u2019 Colloquium series\u00a0for Spring 2013 We often talk of video games as being \u201cfun,\u201d but this is a mistake. When we … Continue reading “Art of Failure talk at Comparative Media Studies, MIT, March 14”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-failure","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}