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Performing Value: Labor and Contingencyin Virtual Worlds
12 November 2009Internet as Playground and Factory
Thomas MalabyUniversity of [email protected]
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What is at Stake in Virtual Worlds, and Why?
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In a Bourdieuvian Mode
Material Capital (market exchange)
cash, commodities
Social Capital (reciprocity)
connections
Cultural Capital (learning, authorization)
competencies, credentials, artifacts
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Second Life
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Persistence and Contingency
Persistence
- The effects of actions accumulate in time.
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Persistence and Contingency
Persistence
- The effects of actions accumulate in time.
Contingency
- Outcomes of actions are indeterminate, and therefore can become meaningful
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Photo by Shane Willis
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Constant’s New Babylon
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Marx & Huizinga
Huizinga, and his homo ludens, was thinking about a state of mind, not about a new kind of humanity; of human being, but in a certain sense a state of mind, of certain temporary conditions of human beings. For instance, when you are at a carnival, a feast, a wedding party. Temporarily you become the homo ludens, but then the next day you can be the homo faber again. He has to earn his pay. Marx…says creativity is a state of mind. A man cannot always be a painter. He is only a painter when he paints…That is close. I have always tried to reconcile those two points of view, those visions of Marx…and Huizinga.
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Constant’s New Babylon
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Homo Creans - Man the Creator_________________
Homo Fabricans - Man the MakerHomo Ludens - Man the Player
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Designer/Developer_________________
Player/Users/Content Creators
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Thomas MalabyUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
[email protected]/~malaby
Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life (June 2009, Cornell University Press)