{"id":641,"date":"2017-05-02T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=641"},"modified":"2017-05-02T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:24:08","slug":"endless-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Endless summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to PhD candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/philosophy\/christopher-yorke.shtml\" >Christopher Yorke<\/a> for the appearance of a publication in Journal for the Philosophy of Sport, the foremost journal in its field.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0considers a thought experiment due to Bernard Suits. Suits imagines a technological utopia, in which all our instrumental needs are satisfied (it&#8217;s only a matter of time!) and claims that in this world we would need to play games\u00a0&#8211; which he famously defines as the &#8216;voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles&#8217;. This fact, says Suits, tells us something important: that game playing is the &#8216;ideal of human existence&#8217;.\u00a0Chris, in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/eprint\/nGj7s76NhrD5BEWmVQHt\/full\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.tandfonline.com');\">&#8216;Endless summer: What kinds of games will Suits\u2019 utopians play?&#8217;<\/a>, is sceptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to PhD candidate Christopher Yorke for the appearance of a publication in Journal for the Philosophy of Sport, the foremost journal in its field. He\u00a0considers a thought experiment due to Bernard Suits. Suits imagines a technological utopia, in which all our instrumental needs are satisfied (it&#8217;s only a matter of time!) and claims that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}