Thread by @SpiralChris, Yet there's undeniably a weird nest of dogmas lurking deep in game [...]

Chris Bateman

SpiralChris

Yet there& #39;s undeniably a weird nest of dogmas lurking deep in game studies, and peer review& #39;s self-reaffirming echo chamber only intensifies this blindness.

It& #39;s not just a problem in game studies - listen to @babette_babich on academic philosophy and find the same issues.

Despite the title, Wikipedia Knows Nothing isn& #39;t so much an attack on the Wikipedia as it is a challenge to academics. The Wikipedia& #39;s problem is precisely that it is a horde of non-academics pretending to be academics. The problem in both spheres is the academic status quo.

The question of knowledge becomes the question of what the point of a university is. I don& #39;t believe we know any more. Which is why we increasingly justify universities as job preparation... how else to explain the money being milked from the young folks?

I feel a deep malaise about all of this... I love the game studies community, and the play studies community, and the philosophy community - but I worry about their narrowing of purpose, and our complicity in destroying the very purpose of a university education.

But I have made myself an outsider. And I suppose I have relished being an outsider, I& #39;ve taken it on as part of my & #39;brand& #39; (for all the good it has done me)!

It& #39;s hard, as a lifelong nerd master, not to paint yourself always on the outside, one way or another.

If I had one piece of advice for every scholar, it would be to question what it is you& #39;re committed to, how you know what you are doing is good (rather than & #39;useful& #39;).

To the extent we can answer this question, we have a reason to keep the university as a social institution.

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