Homo Ludens: A Renewed Reading • Peter McDonald

The author discusses Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens and the animating mood that it calls the “play spirit.” He argues that these styles of playfulness represent a major practical and theoretical contribution Huizinga offers contemporary studies of play, and he considers Huizinga’s methodology in a reading that runs counter to formal definitions of play. Drawing on phenomenological, linguistic, and hermeneutic elements in the text, he presents an alternative understanding of play’s form and what resists formalization. By attending to Huizinga’s hesitations and rhetorical excess in key moments of explanation, the article unvails the development of play spirit in Homo Ludens and its significance for the study of play and games.

Key words: #formalism Johan #Huizinga; interpretations of Homo Ludens; #phenomenology

https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2022/01/11-2-Article-5.pdf

Aram Khatchaturian -- Symphony No. 3 (Symphony-Poem) -- Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Leopold Stokowski conductor
https://youtu.be/FvPa1ASaxLA?si=qQFFWDPjOpx1YtTL

This 1947 work in praise of the "Soviet Motherland" was condemned by Zhdanov as "formalistic".

I find this assessment difficult to understand. To my ears, this 24 minutes of vulgar bombast has more in common with the movies at their worst than with modernism.

Anyway, when the announcer on KMFA said that John Williams was coming up, that's when I knew it was time to switch off.

#ClassicalMusic #Khatchaturian #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #JohnWilliams #Ahdanov #Formalism

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏: 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 -

What do a children’s story and horror film have in common? Maybe our Suffering Child question, with very different approaches to it.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/stephen-king-meets-shel-silverstein-formalism-and-trope-in-story/

#podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read
#stephenking #stormofthecentury #shelsilverstein #thegivingtree #formalism #genre #medium #trope #cliche #stereotype #formulafiction

line segments everywhere; some of them loom

Higher-res and photonerd minutiae at Flicker:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/54610203059/in/album-72177720317299282

#photo #photography #architecture #formalism #geometry #lines #linesegments #WeatheredBuilding #industrialbuildings

Every Sunday I look back at the preceding week in kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen tripleS ∞! – Untitled.

As with just about everybody else who is not a hardcore fan of tripleS, I am now completely lost when it comes to subunits; I don’t even know how to read this subunit’s name.

Anyway, the song itself has grown on me. When it really clicked was with the release of this performance version, which abstracts away from the high school setting and adolescent angst of the original MV. As is so often the case, performance versions and stages, by dispensing with narrative and the straightforwardly representational, appeal to the formalist in me.

https://youtu.be/_9Wgsd19cto?si=r49OGEY2LLJTVhyX

#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #TripleS #Untitled #GirlGroups #PerformanceVideos #Formalism #Aesthetics

#CfP for the #conference "New Readings on Russian #Formalism at the Crossroads of Slavic #Cultural History: Primary Insights and Perspectives for Future Research", which will take place at the Université libre de Bruxelles on October 21 and 22, 2024.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: May 1, 2024

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/new-readings-on-russian-formalism-at-the-crossroads-of-slavic-cultural-history-primary-insights-and/ #fidavlnews #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory @litstudies

This article explores formalism in the philosophy of mathematics, which suggests that mathematics operates more like a game than a representation of reality. It argues that mathematical propositions resemble moves in a game, lacking inherent connections to abstract objects or properties. While intuitive and historically supported, this view is contested by many philosophers. The article examines different forms of formalism and subsequent efforts to refine it.

Formalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics

#Formalism #Hellenism #Hellenistic #Math #Mathematics #Metaphysics #Neoplatonism #Philosophy #Plato #Platonism #Realism

`Hanslick argued that #music could be enjoyed as pure sound and form, and that it needed no connotation of extra-musical elements to warrant its existence. He argued that in fact, these extra-musical ideas and images detracted from the #beauty of the music... #Formalism therefore rejected genres such as #opera, #song and tone #poems as they conveyed explicit meanings or programmatic #imagery`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_music#Formalist_debate