Manglish Themes in Gaming

Themes of the mangle to be found in gaming.

Agency

• game: important feature (contra vanilla system analysis) is the ontological role of the player: motivations and goals

• mangle: essential feature is the (free-)actions of human and non-human actors

Resistance

• game: participants are frustrated by other players or limitations of agency within the game, i.e. rules

• mangle: (non-)human agency provides pushback against human attempts to problem solve, resolve crises or end controversies

Contingency

• game: outcome may have been different if agents had made different choices

• mangle: the conceptual framework that survives is the result of a particular historical path which is not determined by actors or events - choices may always have been different, manifestation of resistance may have been otherwise