Playing with money.

[droqen]

What if I saw money through the lens of Bogost's play? As something to be accepted, to draw my own boundaries around it, to see it for what it is.

Money is not a lifeblood to be wrung and feared; money is just a number. It's not a plea for cash, but an invitation to play with money between us.

These facets of the real world exist to be played with, too.

[droqen]

this is <#860650544211951617> content, I swear:

I've been reading Ian Bogost's "Play Anything" over the past couple weeks, a book which encourages a particular definition of play that I'll badly sum up as "not being afraid of things, and instead feeling free to engage with them for what they are." I like it.

I took a shower while thinking too much about money, and I've been thinking, maybe I just need to be more playful about the concept of money. Less fear, more... this is what money is; accept it and then make playgrounds out of it! (Oikospiel's website, for example.)