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This ‘Letter from the Editors’ introduces two theories about the role of play in culture and society. Drawing on the work of Roger Caillois, the editors identify two types of play, broadly aligning each to the concerns and approaches taken in the two parts of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal. Thereafter, they introduce the papers that make up the second part of vol. 20, no. 1 (2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an inquiry on the role of play in shaping the cultures of the Information Age. By applying concepts from Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Information, this paper argues that play and computation share a capacity to shape human experience. I will apply the concept of re-ontologization to describe the effect that computation has had in shaping the world. I will apply the concept of relational strategies to argue that play is a way of interfacing with the computational world. This paper argues that play is a particularly relevant form of shaping the human experience of the re-ontologized infosphere because play, like computation, can create worlds. The goal of this article is to propose a research program that situates play as a relevant perspective to analyze the culture of the Information Age., Author(s): Miguel Sicart [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (Aff1) 0000 0004 0620 5453, grid.32190.39, Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen, , Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark [...]

The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the therapeutic potential of fantastic literature for young people on the example of the series of novels by Rafał Kosik. The paper consists of three parts. The first part presents the definition of fantastic literature with reference to the concepts introduced by Tzvetan Todorov, Roger Caillois, Eric Rabkin and dictionary entries. Then the therapeutic function of literature is discussed by citing psychological theses on the importance of narrative in human life, as well as Roman Ingarden's theory of the aesthetic experience. This provides the basis for reflection on bibliotherapy and the use of fantastic literature within its framework. The third part of the article presents the concept of the series of novels about Felix, Net and Nika, referring to the opinions of critics and literary scholars. Subsequently the selected fragments of the novels are discussed, demonstrating their therapeutic potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay is dedicated to war considered through the reflections of Roger Caillois and in particular through certain motifs - feast, sacred, vertigo - that allow us to grasp its 'metaphysical' intention, i.e. capable of looking at war as the point of chiasmatic reversibility of life and death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]