{"id":2140,"date":"2014-03-10T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/videogames-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism-by-paolo\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:51","slug":"videogames-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism-by-paolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/videogames-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism-by-paolo\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism (by <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/86738382\">paolo pedercini<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Pedercini on videogames and capitalism is rather good and thought-provoking. I am grateful he\u2019s willing to discuss gamification (most \u201cserious\u201d thinkers in games have started to ignore it, but that doesn\u2019t mean it has gone away). His suggestions for steering computer-assisted gaming and playing away from a super-rational and utilitarian mode reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/wombflashforest.blogspot.nl\/2013\/09\/notes-on-eric-zimmermans-manifesto-for.html\">soft gamification<\/a> and are worth exploring further.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism (by paolo pedercini) Paolo Pedercini on videogames and capitalism is rather good and thought-provoking. I am grateful he\u2019s willing to discuss gamification (most \u201cserious\u201d thinkers in games have started to ignore it, but that doesn\u2019t mean it has gone away). His suggestions for steering computer-assisted gaming and playing away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/videogames-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism-by-paolo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}