McKenzie Wark

As Microsoft says: Where do you want to go today? You can go anywhere you want in gamespace but you can never leave it.

Here reigns the wisdom of PlayStation: Live in your world, play in ours.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

reality TV doesn’t look like reality, but then neither does reality. Both look like games.

It doesn’t matter if your cave comes equipped with a PlayStation or Bloomberg terminal. It doesn’t matter whether you think you are playing the bond market or Grand Theft Auto. It is all just an algorithm with enough unknowns to make a game of it.

Work becomes play. Work demands not just one’s mind and body but also one’s soul. You have to be a team player. Your work has to be creative, inventive, playful—ludic, but not ludicrous.

Alex Galloway: “To play the game means to play the code of the game. To win means to know the system. And thus to interpret a game means to interpret its algorithm (to discover its parallel allegorithm).”

Cyber theorist Geert Lovink: “Cyberspace at the dawn of the 21st century can no longer position itself in a utopian void of seamless possibilities.”*

You can change the form of Government but there’s not much you can do to change the underlying form of production.

When playing Civilization III, it doesn’t matter if the civilization you choose to play is Babylon or China, Russia or Zulu-land, France or India. Whoever wins is America, in that the logic of the game itself is America. America unbound.