The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

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"Brilliant and wildly original . . . Nguyen is a connoisseur of games, and his musings about them are ingenious and entertaining . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee." -Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post "I give this excellent book five stars." -Stuart Jeffries, Financial Times "Quirky and enthusiastic . . . [In The Score, Nguyen] combines an enthusiast's celebration of games' inner workings with a lament for the power of metrics to flatten our lives and capture our values . . . Nguyen helps us see how games transform instincts into something beautiful, valuable and meditative." -Bloomberg A philosophy of games to help us win back control over what we value The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen-one of the leading experts on the philosophy of games and the philosophy of data-takes us deep into the heart of games, and into the depths of bureaucracy, to see how scoring systems shape our desires. Games are the most important art form of our era. They embody the ...