C. Thi Nguyen (2019, 2020) has argued that playing a wide variety of games can produce a desirable kind of agential flexibility analogous to the physical flexibility produced by activities like yoga. The author argues that, instead of focusing on a general notion of flexibility or fluidity, we should distinguish four different athletic virtues – flexibility, agility, strength and endurance – all of which have agential counterparts. The author considers how games might increase our agential flexi…
Read moreC. Thi Nguyen (2019, 2020) has argued that playing a wide variety of games can produce a desirable kind of agential flexibility analogous to the physical flexibility produced by activities like yoga. The author argues that, instead of focusing on a general notion of flexibility or fluidity, we should distinguish four different athletic virtues – flexibility, agility, strength and endurance – all of which have agential counterparts. The author considers how games might increase our agential flexibility, agility, strength or endurance, while also highlighting trade-offs that limit the extent to which games can improve us in these ways.
