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Using a range of case studies from Critical Theory to Candy Crush, Gangnam Style to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to Hieronymus Bosch, this book argues that we need to rethink our enjoyment Inspired by psychoanalysis, the book offers a new way of thinking about how we talk about what we enjoy and how we enjoy what we talk about. Best Download [ Enjoying It ] by [ Alfie Bown ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr There are some interesting bits about the ideological function of games within capitalism which, after all, is the core premise of the book but overall this book isn t especially substantial Would have been better as a blog post tbhActually made me interested in learningabout Lacanian psychoanalysis, which nothing has ever succeeded in doing before, but the specific analyses were unconvincing and suffered a logical fallacy that drives me crazy and is used a lot in the humanities These two similar things are popular now, therefore they tell us something meaningful about our culture Problem is, he hasn t demonstrated that they are popular now, arepopular than in the past, or arepopular than other cultu Actually made me interested in learningabout Lacanian psychoanalysis, which nothing has ever succeeded in doing before, but the specific analyses were unconvincing and suffered a logical fallacy that drives me crazy and is used a lot in the humanities These two similar things are popular now, therefore they tell us something meaningful about our culture Problem is, he hasn t demonstrated that they are popu...I think I lack some of the necessary background to really follow the finer points of this knowing nothing about Deleuze etc but even so, it blew my mind Can t stop seeing everything I enjoy through this lens now I m still processing, but this may have fundamentally re...What does Alfie Bown want with this book Stripped of its political pretensions, it would have been pretty middling some worthwhile observations, but most of it overwrought analyses of fairly straightforward pop cultural phenomena in unelegant prose Videogames allow us to enjoy the success we dont have in real life you don t say However, the book is not just a disinterested analysis, but an admonition to look for the inconsistencies within i...Bon, j imagine que noter un tel livre et faire des commentaires sur un r seau social de recommandations g n ralement utilis pour du divertissement n est probablement pas ce que le livre d fendrait vraiment comme pratique Bien que Beaucoup, beaucoup de r p titions au sein du livre qui ne font pas vraiment avancer la r flexion, les analyses sont tr s courtes, souvent insuffisante nous en tout cas moi convaincre Comme dans toutes traditions philosophiques, plusieurs auteur es je f min Bon, j imagine que noter un tel livre et faire des commentaires sur un r seau social de recommandations g n ralement utilis pour du divertissement n est probablement pas ce que le livre d fendrait vraiment comme pratique Bien que Beaucoup, beaucoup de r p titions au sein du livre qui ne font pas vraiment avancer la r flexion, les analyses sont tr...If Zizek likes it, who is to argueInteresting, well developed, perhaps even radical point I enjoyed it while realizing that everybody who read the book is obligated to make a similar if not the same exact terrible pun.nice little book on enjoymentVery interesting theses and the writer has the ability to discuss Lacan in such a way that is actually accessible, but I found the prose quite robotic and bland it lacked poetics or flair A short and worthwhile read, though.More or less, a deduction from Bourdieu s distinction.

Enjoying It
  • 21 January 2017
  • Paperback
  • 96 pages
  • 1785351559
  • Alfie Bown
  • Enjoying It