Theory review #57

• New on desk #117 — Creative discourse pt. I by Eero Tuovinen, https://www.arkenstonepublishing.net/isabout/2022/03/30/new-on-desk-117-creative-discourse-pt-i/, discusses the creative dynamics in roleplaying culture; that game masters talk with other game masters but play with players.
• Science and technology studies and role-playing games by Rafael Bienia, a chapter in Role-playing game studies: transmedia foundations, preprint https://nitessine.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/free-stuff-chapters-from-role-playing-game-studies-transmedia-foundations/, introduces science and platform studies and gives a brief look on actor-network theory.
• Rules vs vigorous creative agreement by Vincent Baker, https://lumpley.com/index.php/anyway/thread/360, argues that rules should bring the unwelcome to the play, the things the participants would not have created by mutual agreement and consensus.