{"product_id":"the-score","title":"The Score","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning\nabout the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIs this the game you want to be playing?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nScoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives – whether it’s the\nfit bits on our wrists, likes on social media, and even school rankings – they\nhave become pervasive and increasingly dangerous, warping our desires and\noutsourcing our values to external institutions. Instead of encouraging us to\nbe more playful, to take pleasure in the journey of striving towards a goal,\ninstitutions, corporations and bureaucracies weaponize scoring systems to\nimpose their own interests. No matter what, we always seem to be playing by\nsomeone else’s rules.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn \u003ci\u003eThe Score\u003c\/i\u003e, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen shows us how this newly\n‘gamified’ world has fundamentally captured our value systems, turning what\nmight be moral or personal life choices into numerical data, and forcing us to\nprioritise what can be measured and monetized over what is truly meaningful to\nus.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA life-long lover of online and board games himself, Nguyen argues that we\nshould not stop playing games but rather take a step back and become more aware\nof their immersive and profound power, so that we might chart a way towards\nmore creative and joyful lives. To start playing our own game.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. Thi Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of\nPhilosophy at the University of Utah, and a specialist in the philosophy of\ngames, the philosophy of technology, and the theory of value. A former food\nwriter for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Nguyen is active in public\nphilosophy, writing for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post, New\nStatesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44800033390799,"sku":"9780241653975","price":57.23,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_f46ecf3d-58fb-4845-bf32-1afe9b502d95.jpg?v=1777005122","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/the-score","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}