{"product_id":"games-9781932698442","title":"Games","description":"In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells' \"Floor Games\"; D. Graham Burnett on games played by game theorists; Barbara Levine and Jessica Helfand on dexterity games; James Trainor on the lost world of \"adventure\" playgrounds; Dana Katz on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's \"Oblique Strategies\"; an interview with Bertell Ollman, inventor of the board game \"Class Struggle\"; and Jeff Dolven on poems as games. Elsewhere in the issue: Helen Larsson on the history of applause; Wayne Koestenbaum's legendary \"Legend\" column; Naomi Muller on eating the zoo animals in Berlin during World War II; Jeremy Crichton on \"spite\" houses; and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932698442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.82h x 7.91w x 0.34d","brand":"Sina Najafi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452252614837,"sku":"9781932698442","price":10.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8cf2f7fb-5fd7-4707-8de2-d87e8222ba19.jpg?v=1776826412","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/games-9781932698442","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}