alternative modernity

alternative modernity: "ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY?
PLAYING THE JAPANESE GAME OF CULTURE
by Andrew Feenberg

If games both fashion and reflect culture, it stands to reason that to a certain extent a whole civilization and, within that civilization, an entire era can be characterized by its games.
������������������� Roger Caillois, 'Les jeux dans le monde moderne'
The writer's irony is a negative mysticism to be found in times without a god.
��������������������� Luk�cs, The Theory of the Novel
Introduction: Games as Rational Systems"