Weird Studies/Glass Bead Game

02 Feb 2022 - 17 Jun 2023
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    • There was a mention of Finite and Infinite Games but it included a bit of a sneer at it for being read by "business people". I found that off-putting even though I certainly share in that kind of snobbery. There's a mild but definite aura of subcultural elitism around WS, of being better than the normies.
    • At the very end
      • The act of divination is when you have an instance in real life (work, minefield etc) with high stakes, life and death, and turn it into a game, by abstracting and stepping out of (in order to serve its concrete unfolding). (paraphrase)
      • They (Tarot, I Ching, GBG) are games, but are infinite games (and there is only one infinite game).
      • Learning to make life a game, playing with the relationship between play and the serious (see WorkPlay). The glass bead game as a representation of the esthetic. Divination as a way to play without losing the stakes, as an artwork that is for full blown goals...
      • Mentioned the word "entelechy" which I have to admit I have no fucking idea what it means. OK like Aristotelian soul or Leibniz monads Entelechy | Definition, Example, Aristotle, & Leibniz | Britannica
        • The term was revived around the turn of the 20th century by Hans Driesch, a German biologist and philosopher, in connection with his vitalistic biology to denote an internal perfecting principle which, he supposed, exists in all living organisms.