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	Game Studies 0501: The Semiotics of Time Structure in Ludic Space by Craig A. Lindley
		For any particular ludic system, such as a computer game, time structure can be considered in terms of a number of distinct layers of meaning analogous to the levels of encoding identified in structuralist narrative theory: a generation level, a simulation level, a performance level and a discourse level.
		Ludic semiotics begins with a broad conception of the field of ludic systems, and then seeks a systematic framework for the analysis of the ways in which meanings are generated for the players of ludic systems.
		Ludic systems are fundamentally time-based, and temporal structure is a major determinant of the player’s perception and experience of ludic form.
	www.gamestudies.org /0501/lindley (6810 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Ludic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ludic (adjective) means literally 'playful', and refers to any philosophy where play is the prime purpose of life.
		Ludic derives from the Latin and conotes anything that is "fun".
		Confusion with luddite (One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment) since both are anti-structure, anti-bureaucracy (but ludic is not necessarily anti-technology whereas luddite movements are).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lu/ludic.htm (106 words)

	(Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism by Teresa Ebert 1995
		The crux of all ludic postmodern and feminist theories, however, is the rewriting of the social as largely discursive (thus marked by the traits of linguistic difference), local, contingent, asystematic and indeterminate.
		For these ludic critics, the subject's inventiveness — that is, her/ his participation in the discursive "play" of language games, metaphors, significations — enables her/him to overcome the determinacy of social construction and move into the terrain of a utopian future.
		Of course, ludic critics do not deny oppression (that is, domination as opposed to exploitation), but they largely confine both their recognition and explanations of the occurrences of oppression to particular, local events and gestures of power that are, by definition, reversible, that generate their own resistances.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/ebert.htm (12446 words)

	The Ludic Kite Buggy (Review) - The Power Kite Site
		The Ludic' is designed and manufactured by France's largest sand-yacht maker, the Ludic' is a direct result of the technological know-how.
		The Ludic' is made from treated steel and composite fibre.
		The possibility of turning the Ludic' into a sand yacht is a brilliant idea.
	www.kitepower.com /reviews/ludicbuggyreview.html (341 words)

	Is It Fun? Language Play in a Fifth-Grade Spanish Immersion Classroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These two varieties of ludic language play are part of the input given to children acquiring their first language (L1) in the form of nursery rhymes, poems, fairy tales and fables, and other kinds of 'pretend' play.
		This is ludic interlanguage play: there are shifts of voice quality, use of interlanguage forms that are very familiar to the speakers, creation of fiction, and performance for an audience other than oneself.
		Tarone (2000a) argues that perhaps the most important contribution of ludic language play with IL forms to L2 acquisition is that it may foster the development of the permeable (Adjémian, 1976) parts of the learner's interlanguage IL rule system.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/cmlr/584/584_Broner.html (11260 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ludic language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Language is seen as a social force, already corrupted when used for private expression and destructive to those who attempt to deviate from the social definitional norm it expresses (135).
		Whereas the earlier novels have been seen as presenting an incipient exploitation of language as ludic, deceptive, polyvalent, inadequate, etc., with Kafka and the novels that follow, we are shown how the full-fledged characteristics we attribute to the modern and postmodern novel were already present in varying degrees in the previous narratives.
		Binaries coexist unproblematically: an elitist aestheticism is juxtaposed to the illusory “urge to democratise the novel” (207); a non-existent relation between signifier and signified is emphasized; and futile attempts at epistemological solutions and at language as meaning-producing are highlighted.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ludic-language (327 words)

	LUDIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The LUDIC program is a collaborative effort involving Special Education and Dr. Deborah Murray, Dean of the Lee University Education Department.
		The LUDIC Program contracted with the Bradley County Schools, Cleveland City Schools, and the Polk County Schools to provide appropriate educational services for specific children with developmental delays.
		LUDIC became a school for four typical children in grades 3 and 4 as role models for our contract children.
	faculty.leeu.edu /~vkraus/ludic.htm (546 words)

	CHAPTER II
		When the "subject-object" schema is mobilized with a ludic, creative approach and directed not toward manipulating objects, but toward developing a co-creative relationship with ambits of reality, the subject and object appear, not as higher or lower objects, but as fields of possibilities for interplay.
		In contrast, at the ludic level, as has been pointed out since antiquity, the basic attitude is one of disinterested open generosity as an indispensable condition for the experience of ecstasy.
		The theory of ludic participation teaches one to overcome the apparently paradoxical nature of this phrase and to grasp its profound logic.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series01/I-2/chapter_ii.htm (5895 words)

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		Ludic Feminism and After is a radical rearticulation of feminism and feminist theory.
		She argues instead for the possibilities of a "resistance post-modernism" in feminism: theory grounded in the social struggle over the "material differences" of labor and access to economic means and resources.
		Her provocative and powerful book challenges ludic feminism within the academy, and outlines transformative politics and feminist theory that can address material crises, such as the international trade in young women for prostitution, dowry murders in India, and the genocidal rape in Bosnia.
	www.deathstar.org /groups/umpress/Titles/ebert.html (368 words)

	CHAPTER IV
		Creative, ludic processes always are impelled and sustained by concrete realities as both "objective" and "super-objective" or "ambital." This, rather than an aversion to the universal, is the basic reason for the return to the concrete in contemporary thought.
		Feeling arises as the fruit of a ludic encounter in which value is born, but this does not mean that the value depends entirely upon such an event.
		Values can be protected against reduction to the sensible level by acknowledging their power for founding special modes of reality, ludic spaces, which increase the reality of human beings and of the entities in their environment.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series01/I-2/chapter_iv.htm (5747 words)

	Constructed Types of Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ideal constructed type of a ludic lover is that of a person who ‘plays’ love affairs as he or she plays games or puzzles — to win, to get the greatest rewards for the least cost.
		The ludic lover enjoys strategies, and may keep two or three or even four lovers "on the string" at one time.
		If she does not like his sexual behavior, the ludic man moves on to someone who does; if he does not get an erection or bring her to orgasm on his own (with no help for her) the ludic woman looks for a man who will.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~bmori/syll/311syll/Lovetypes.html (2232 words)

	Toward a Ludic Model: Smooth and Striated Space and Sid Meier's Civilization \| Gameology
		A valid ludic model must also address Deleuze and Guattari cautions against oversimplifying smooth and striated space for a ludic model because of the complexities of smooth and striated space and because of the other dimensions of ludic space.
		Because smooth and striated space never exist alone except in abstraction, the ludic model of Go and chess is useful for delimiting the exact characteristics of smooth and striated space for use in the represented space of video games.
		With these multiple levels of spatial significance, any useful ludic model must be able to address the different types of space within a single game as well as the potential ways that the space may develop in other games and other game genres.
	www.gameology.org /node/706 (2407 words)

	:: SCAN \| journal of media arts culture ::
		Ludic Moments examines the current state of the emerging field of humanities-based research into computer games.
		This event, organised by Patrick Crogan and sponsored by the Macquarie University Media Department and RMIT, was the first symposium in Australia wholly devoted to the study of computer games from the perspectives of critical and cultural theory of contemporary audio-visual culture.
		The articles assembled in Ludic Moments explore the divergent responses to computer gaming - as a form of program design and aesthetic practice specific to computer games, or more generally as a key to understanding computer mediated interactivity across a wide range of creative expression.
	scan.net.au /scan/journal/display_synopsis.php?j_id=1 (242 words)

	Ludic spray from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog
		At a meeting last month, a group of us decided to term this sort of thing "ludic spray," inspired by Zimmerman and Salen's definition of a "game," from their book Rules of Play, and further extrapolated by Zimmerman here:
		Ludic Activities are other kinds of activities that we would recognize as play (two dogs chasing each other, two kids rough-housing, someone casually tossing and catching a ball)...
		One good example of community-led ludic spray is machinima, the art of making movies from game engines - set for a repeated session at this year's Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival.
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /games/archives/2006/08/10/ludic_spray.html (657 words)

	The Knowable Good—Post-al Ethics, the Question of Justice and Red Feminism
		Ludic feminism, which is founded upon poststructuralist assumptions about linguistic play, difference and the priority of discourse, has taken the lead in retheorizing politics in terms of series of “post-alities”
		The crux of all ludic postmodern and feminist theories is the rewriting of the social as largely discursive (thus marked by the traits of linguistic difference), local, contingent, asystematic and indeterminate.
		As a result, politics, for ludic postmodernists, can no longer be grounded on clear identities and oppositions nor can it be situated in a reality “outside” representation as a “referent” for action.
	www.etext.org /Politics/AlternativeOrange/5/v5n1_kg.html (1132 words)

	fAf :: Ezine - reviews
		An inadequate recognition that the videogame medium is host to a diverse range of ludic genres has been partly responsible for the demonisation of videogames based on observations made about violence in the RPG genre.
		Moving from describing the purely ludic process of spatial opening in RPGs to read it as promoting a spatiotemporal utopianism leading to proletarian revolution is highly perilous if made without further justification.
		A much more subtle means of disguising the ludic process of spatial opening is to replace the objects that enable movement past barriers with event-related triggers.
	www.fineartforum.org /Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/hourigan.html (7909 words)

	THE ABOLITION OF WORK
		To be ludic is not to be ludicrous.
		To be ludic is not to be quaaludic.
		A first step is to discard the notions of a "job" and an "occupation." Even activities that already have some ludic content lose most of it by being reduced to jobs which certain people, and only those people, are forced to do to the exclusion of all else.
	deoxy.org /endwork.htm (6097 words)

	Jos de Mul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With regard to ludic self-construction, just as in the case of narrative self-construction, a triad of - logical rather than chronological - moments can be discerned (inspired by Ricoeur’s triple definition of mimesis).
		Such ludic expressions of game play can be defined as “free acts that take place within a specially designed time in an specially designed place, according to specific rules which are strictly adhered to” (Huizinga, 1970, 13).
		Just like the reflective application of the narrative to the self, the ludic self-construction is no simple imitation (of the rules of thought and action expressed in the technological devices).
	www.gamesconference.org /digra2005/viewabstract.php?id=131 (343 words)

	Ludic Nation
		Ludic Nation the website is devoted to game design issues, specifically those surrounding Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or MMORPGs.
		At a broader level, the Ludic Nation is a concept of identity forged by common membership in online communities and virtual worlds, a nationalism defined by a shared game.
		The Ludic Nation would be the nation that is aware of its play-nature, aware that it is only a game.
	www.ludicnation.com (432 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/ludic
		He is indeed the outstanding imaginative prose stylist of his generation, with an entirely recognizable literary manner, fizzy and playful (I am trying to avoid the words "pyrotechnic" and "ludic").
		But within this ludic tale there lurks a tragedy of love and loss that does not lose its tenderness even when embedded in [the author's] perpetually farcical frame of mind.
		Ludic derives from Latin ludus, "play." Ludicrous, "amusing or laughable," shares the same root.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2001/10/21.html (120 words)

	Effort and Ludic Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A final observation about effort in ludic reading is that response demands (replying to a question, doing a comprehension test) increase one's sense of effortfulness.
		Like fantasy (which is free because it is not subject to feedback control from the real world), ludic reading is also sovereign, subject to no evaluation or censure by any person other than the reader.
		Indeed, the moment evaluative demands intrude, as in the case of an absorbed reader suddenly told that he or she is to produce a critical review of the book, ludic reading, in obedience to a variety of mechanisms, at once becomes work reading: the response demand triggers a perceived effortfulness.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /cpace/111/MDWeb/Neffort2.html (126 words)

	Center for Ludic Synergy
		He is writing an explanatory essay on the subject; meanwhile, you can read about it on a previous version of this page if you don't mind high-flown speculation.
		Ludic synergy is one of the principles of capital-'L' Ludism.
		Links to pages about unusual games that might be of interest to people who like to have their brains stretched.
	www.ludism.org (725 words)

	New Babylon
		U2, subtitled “The ludic city”, is the practice-oriented leg of of the 'New Babylon Manifestatie'.
		As an educational pilot project, its objective is to explore the potential of visionary, ‘paper’ architecture, not only in its role in a professional discourse, but also in its ability to stimulate public debate - by providing a tangible, spacial dimension to a social narrative.
		‘The ludic city’, with its one week on site workshop, and 7 weeks of intensive studio work - in teams and on an individual basis - will result in an exhibition, accompanied by a public project presentation and a publication.
	www.bk.tudelft.nl /verenigingen/link/english/u2.htm (532 words)

	3.
		However, a number of feminist film projects have encountered the transformative shortcomings of ludic understandings: the discursive limits and the inevitable political closure and containment entailed in ludic invocations of an “undecidable” textual-sexuality as a counter-patriarchal project.
		—the “samenesses” that ludic “difference” works to conceal are not ahistorical ones, but are in fact the limiting “samenesses” that have historically underwritten the exploitative reprivatizing logic of bourgeois knowledge-practices and, as well, all of its forms of familialism.
		Ludic rewritings and reincorporations of “family” have problematized more conservative (subject-centered) texts.
	www.etext.org /Politics/AlternativeOrange/3/v3n3_tr3.html (884 words)

	Purse Lip Square Jaw: Ludic ≠ playful
		The ludic encompasses all the different ways one can 'play' with networks, not in order to establish alternatives, but to discover their state of optimal functioning."
		By focussing on the ludic - by measuring the pleasure of games and play by functional and productive criteria - we miss the chaotic, voluptuous, and seductive qualities of play.
		As Mortensen concludes, the real dangers of gaming are not exposure to violence or social isolation, but rather in promoting a "society where delight is used to reach goals" and seduction is rendered empty and meaningless.
	www.purselipsquarejaw.org /2004/12/ludic-playful.php (587 words)

	Miniature Gardens & Magic Crayons
		Ludic interest is also predicated on diversification of possible worlds.
		A corollary principle of ludic playability is responsible for ludic interest: diversification of possible worlds in games gives substance to phenomena such as contests, challenge, agency, winning, and losing.
		While narrative pullulation toys with the expectations and plans of characters and the expectations of the reader, ludic pullulation engages the expectations, plans, and actions of the player directly, since the reader is no longer a reader, but a player who participates in the action and directs travel across a landscape of possible worlds.
	www.slackworks.com /~cog/writing/thesis/pullulation.php (2530 words)

	Lee University News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to their mission statement, the Siskin Children’s Institute is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with special needs and their families through excellence in education, support services, advocacy and community partnerships.
		Since that time the teachers and children in LUDIC have benefited from a variety of staff development activities and other resources as a result of the association with Siskin.
		Combining the elements of Siskin’s reputation, influence, and resources with LUDIC’s eager and dedicated staff, the result is sure to be an uncommon and unique program that will benefit children and future teachers.
	www.leeuniversity.edu /info/news/news-article.asp?newsid=584 (426 words)

	The Ludic Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the earliest known ludic manifestations is attributed to the Sudbury Valley School, formed in 1968, a school which was based on fun, instead of work.
		One by one, entire industries slowly began to be replaced by their ludic counterparts.
		Most are ludic, but I've heard that some have gone back to the old-style dollar paper economy.
	members.cox.net /medicman65/Prepense/ludicrevolution.htm (5456 words)

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