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Is this an inappropriate response of a lurker who enjoys the conversations but never finds the time herself to contribute? The thought crossed my mind. But here is my 'Twitter' comment on play-labour (The footnote alone exceeded Twitter - apology for the trim)<div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Go dance. Empty your mind. Read </b></span></font><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Schiller</b></span></font></span><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>[1]</b></span></font></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b> </b></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>on Play and Truth. Go dance.</b></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b> </b></span></font></div> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>[1]</b></span></font></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b> Friedrich Schiller: Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen. Reclam Nr.8994 [2] 1977, 14. Brief </b></span></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b> </b></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></font></div> <div style="mso-element:footnote-list"><br clear="all"> <br><div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn1"> </div> </div> <!--EndFragment--> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Mechthild Schmidt</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">------------------------------------------------</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(126, 126, 126); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(126, 126, 126); font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(126, 126, 126); font-size: 9px; ">Mechthild Schmidt</span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Department coordinator, Clinical Associate Professor</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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color: rgb(126, 126, 126); "><br style="color: rgb(126, 126, 126); font-size: 9px; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7E7E7E" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(126, 126, 126); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(126, 126, 126); font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(126, 126, 126); font-size: 9px; "><a href="mailto:mschmidt@nyu.edu">mschmidt@nyu.edu</a></span></span></span></font></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Christian Fuchs wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And how is this category of playbour or play-labour connected to Michael<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jackson? Was Michael Jackson a playbourer, a capitalist, an immaterial<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">worker, or something else? If there is no theoretical way that allows us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to distinguish the class position of Michael Jackson from the class<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">position of a precarious call center agent or a precarious<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">singer/dancer/writer etc, and we consider them all as part of one<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"class" or describe them all with one category such as "playbour", then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">such categories do not make sense because they too much intermingle<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">different socio-economic life worlds. So what categories should we use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for describing the political economy of Michael Jackson? Is playbour a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sufficient category=</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Christian</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Julian Kücklich schrieb:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Trebor asked me to write "a succinct, one paragraph definition of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">playbour." Okay, here goes:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If we assume that play is distinct from "ordinary life" (Huizinga),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and that it constitutes an "occasion of pure waste" (Caillois), then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">playbour is the re-entry of ordinary life into play, with a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">concomitant valorization of play activities. Insofar as life (bios) is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">always productive, and be it only in the sense that it produces waste,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the extraction of value from play can be seen as a form of waste<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">management; and insofar as play can be seen as a waste of time, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">logic of playbour demands that time be wasted efficiently. In this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sense we could also call playbour the Taylorization of leisure. Like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">other forms of affective or immaterial labour, playbour is not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">productive in the sense of resulting in a product, but it is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">process itself that generates value. The means of production are the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">players themselves, but insofar as they only exist within play<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">environments by virtue of their representations, and their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">representations are usually owned by the providers of these<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">environments, the players cannot be said to be fully in control of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">these means. Playbour is suffused with an ideology of play, which<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">effectively masks labour as play, and disguises the process of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">self-expropriation as self-expression. However, exploitation and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">empowerment, subjectification and objectification, wastefulness and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">efficiency coexist in the ambiguous "third space" of playbour, where<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">these binary oppositions break down, and thus open up new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">possibilities of intersubjectification.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hmm, maybe not so succinct, but it'll have to do for now. I'll try to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">condense it to 140 characters and tweet it later.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Julian aka @cucchiaio</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2009/6/25 Trebor Scholz <trebor@thing.net <<a href="mailto:trebor@thing.net">mailto:trebor@thing.net</a>>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hi Julian,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Great, could you re-join the discussion with a succinct, one</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>paragraph definition of playbour</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and a very short argumentation of why neither play nor labor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>easily fit the situation?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cheers,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trebor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>----</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Written tersely, typed imperfectly, and then sent from my phone</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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