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Author Hirst, Aggie, author.

Title Politics of play : wargaming with the US military / Aggie Hirst
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 346 pages)
Contents Conceptualising Wargaming -- The State of Play -- A Genealogy of Play in Western Philosophy -- Deconstructive Play -- Play as Pedagogy : Gaming the Cognitive Dimension -- Playing the Player : Gaming the Affective Dimension -- For the Win -- The Politics of Immersion
Summary "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the U.S. Military is the first book in International Relations to examine the use of wargames in the world's most powerful fighting forces. Since 2014, a wargaming renaissance has been underway in which a small but committed wargames community of practice has been empowered to proliferate their craft across the military's strategic planning, professional education, and training regimes. Drawing in detail upon one hundred hours of interviews conducted at U.S. military wargames and schoolhouses, it examines the military's use of games for recruitment, training, education, and research. It argues that by promoting a non-reflexive immersive state and cultivating a drive towards victory conditions, wargaming has both reality-producing and subject-producing properties. In addition, grounded in the thought of Jacques Derrida, it offers a new theorisation of play--'deconstructive play'--as a practical means by which the politics and power relations at work in wargames might be identified and challenged. The book shows that, far from one and the same, games sit in tension with play insofar games are systems or structures that arrest and direct play, often imposed from outside, while play involves the making and breaking of such rules by players themselves. Combining original empirical analysis with a new theory of play, Politics of Play offers a critical analysis of the use of wargaming to produce soldiers in the digital age"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2024)
Subject War games -- United States
Military education -- United States.
Soldiers -- Training of -- United States
Simulation games -- United States
War video games -- United States
War -- Computer simulation.
War games.
Warfare & defence.
Warfare and Defence.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2024009081
ISBN 0197629229
9780197629239
0197629237
9780197629215
0197629210
9780197629222
Other Titles Wargaming with the US military