Our present misfortune: Games and the post-bureaucratic colonization of contingency

Social Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-116

  Malaby, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency; Games; Greece; Institutions; Luck; Performance; Second life; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864095964     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2012.560208     Document Type: Article

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