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Submitted by McKenzie Wark (not verified) – Tue, 2007 – 05 – 08 13:02

But why would I want to make the book 'playable' when the book argues that 'play' in this sense is ideological? 'Fun' and 'play' seem to me just code words for the labor of validating the commodity.

Yes, the book is about system-operations, in that it argues that this is how the world now operates.

This is not the place to talk about Ian's interesting book, other than to say that what for him is a bug in certain critical traditions is for me a feature. In subtle and complex ways, they are talking about the whole, or (prohibited word) totality.

Making totality go away is not a task for thought. It doesn't yield to a merely conceptual labor. Its an historical task. A remaking of the world.

Have to run, so please excuse this somewhat scattershot attempt to continue the coversation...