The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game - Couverture rigide

Nguyen, C. Thi

 
9780241653975: The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
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ISBN 10 : 0241653975 ISBN 13 : 9780241653975
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2026

Synopsis

'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, Guardian

Is this the game you want to be playing?

Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives – whether it’s the fit bits on our wrists, likes on social media, and even school rankings – they have become pervasive and increasingly dangerous, warping our desires and outsourcing our values to external institutions. Instead of encouraging us to be more playful, to take pleasure in the journey of striving towards a goal, institutions, corporations and bureaucracies weaponize scoring systems to impose their own interests. No matter what, we always seem to be playing by someone else’s rules.

In The Score, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen shows us how this newly ‘gamified’ world has fundamentally captured our value systems, turning what might be moral or personal life choices into numerical data, and forcing us to prioritise what can be measured and monetized over what is truly meaningful to us.

A life-long lover of online and board games himself, Nguyen argues that we should not stop playing games but rather take a step back and become more aware of their immersive and profound power, so that we might chart a way towards more creative and joyful lives. To start playing our own game.

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À propos de l'auteur

C. Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, and a specialist in the philosophy of games, the philosophy of technology, and the theory of value. A former food writer for the Los Angeles Times, Nguyen is active in public philosophy, writing for the New York Times, Washington Post, New Statesman, and elsewhere.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241653975
ISBN 13 
9780241653975
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0593655656 ISBN 13 :  9780593655658
Editeur : Penguin Press, 2026
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