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===Power versus strength=== | ===Power versus strength=== | ||
{{power versus strength quote}} | {{quote|“{{power versus strength quote}}”}} | ||
It is [[Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.|fashionable]] to speak loosely about “power” in our time — much of [[critical theory]] is a manifesto against the violence [[Power structure|power structures]] do to the marginalised — and Carse’s distinction between “power” and “strength” reminds us to exercise care. | It is [[Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.|fashionable]] to speak loosely about “power” in our time — much of [[critical theory]] is a manifesto against the violence [[Power structure|power structures]] do to the marginalised — and Carse’s distinction between “power” and “strength” reminds us to exercise care. | ||
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{{quote|“Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish ''as a result of my play with them'', but because I can allow them to do what they wish ''in the course of my play with them''.”}} | {{quote|“Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish ''as a result of my play with them'', but because I can allow them to do what they wish ''in the course of my play with them''.”}} | ||
=== | ===“Society” versus “culture”=== | ||
===The | {{quote|“Society they understand as the sum of those relations that are under some form of public constraint, culture as whatever we do with each other by undirected choice. If society is all that a people fells it must do, culture “is the realm of the variable, free, not necessarily universal, of all that cannot lay claim to compulsive authority”.<ref>{{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} Ch. 2 (citing Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt).</ref>”}} | ||
===The “theatrical” versus the “dramatic”=== | |||
{{Quote|{{indent|Inasmuch as a finite game is intended for conclusion, inasmuch as its roles are scripted and performed for an audience, we shall refer to finite play as ''theatrical''. [...]}} | {{Quote|{{indent|Inasmuch as a finite game is intended for conclusion, inasmuch as its roles are scripted and performed for an audience, we shall refer to finite play as ''theatrical''. [...]}} | ||
{{Indent|Inasmuch as infinite players avoid any outcome whatsoever, keeping the future open, making all scripts useless, we shall refer to infinite play as ''dramatic''.}} | {{Indent|Inasmuch as infinite players avoid any outcome whatsoever, keeping the future open, making all scripts useless, we shall refer to infinite play as ''dramatic''.}} | ||