{"id":25,"date":"2003-07-16T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=25"},"modified":"2003-07-16T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:31:09","slug":"game-theorists-imitates-jorge-luis-borges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/07\/16\/game-theorists-imitates-jorge-luis-borges\/","title":{"rendered":"Game theorists imitates Jorge Luis Borges!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who says theory is boring? In Jorge Luis Borges’ famous & funny short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote<\/em>, the writer Pierre Menard sets out to write a novel identical to Cervantes’ Don Quixote; not another<\/em> Don Quixote, but the<\/em> Don Quixote. He succeeds admirably, actually producing an all-new word-for-word copy of Don Quixote:<\/p>\n

\nIt is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote<\/em> of Pierre Menard with that of Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, for examples, wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX):<\/p>\n

… truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This catalog of attributes, written in the seventeenth century, and written by the “ingenious layman” Miguel de Cervantes, is mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes:<\/p>\n

… truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

History, the mother <\/em>of truth! – the idea is staggering. Menard, contemporary of William James, defines history not as a delving into<\/em> reality but as the very fount of reality. Historical truth, for Menard, is not “what happened”; it is what we believe<\/em> happened.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, game studies is finally catching up, compare a quote from this 2002 article<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\nActivity Theory offers a theoretical framework with strong intuitive appeal for researchers examining educational games. Growing out of Vgotsky?s discussion of the mediating role of artifacts in cognition (1978), Activity Theory provides a theoretical language for looking at how an educational game or resource mediates players? understandings of other phenomena while acknowledging the social and cultural contexts in which game play is situated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… with a quote from this new, 2003 article by a different author<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Activity Theory offers a theoretical framework with strong intuitive appeal for researchers examining educational games. Growing out of Vgotsky?s discussion of the mediating role of artifacts in cognition (1978), Activity Theory provides a theoretical language for looking at how an educational game or resource mediates players? understandings of other phenomena while acknowledging the social and cultural contexts in which game play is situated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… and draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who says theory is boring? In Jorge Luis Borges’ famous & funny short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, the writer Pierre Menard sets out to write a novel identical to Cervantes’ Don Quixote; not another Don Quixote, but the Don Quixote. He succeeds admirably, actually producing an all-new word-for-word copy of Don Quixote: … Continue reading “Game theorists imitates Jorge Luis Borges!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}