Playtest

Last Thursday and Friday I attended a ARC Cultural Research Network workshop called The game of being mobile: mobile technologies, gaming cultures and the haptic, organised by Larissa Hjorth and Dr Ingrid Richardson. There were some very interesting discussions, including the suggestion of a location based mobile game for domestic spaces, and also on the nature of the haptic. It was also great to get to talk to scholars like Andrew Murphie about the notion of embodiment. Hopefully these discussions will carry on and present some opportunities for further research after I’ve finished my PhD.

On that topic, my thesis has gone back to the drawing board to a degree, as my writing has drifted quite far from what was originally intended. Though this was somewhat bound to happen with my particular writing practice, I think that I took the maxim of ‘don’t be afraid to write rubbish’ a little too far, and ended up in an exploration of philosophical issues somewhat outside of my purview. Hopefully some of the stuff that I’ve written will be able to be lifted out and worked into the new structure, which orientates around the close reading of a host of games I’ve flagged as potentially interesting.