Ready Player One? A Response to Ricksand

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (3):388-391 (2021)
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I respond to Martin Ricksand’s recommendation that my arguments that current, typical video games are not works for performance be replaced with an argument that no video game could possibly be a work for performance. I cast doubt both on Ricksand’s premise that all video games are games, and on his arguments that no game could be a work for performance.

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A Philosophy of Cinematic Art.Berys Gaut - 2010 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The art of videogames.Grant Tavinor - 2009 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Video Games as Self‐Involving Interactive Fictions.Jon Robson & Aaron Meskin - 2012 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (2):165-177.
Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions.Jon Robson & Aaron Meskin - 2016 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (2):165-177.

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