Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
