ERC Starting Grant · 2024
How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics: Worlding America, 1503-2028
WORLDING AMERICA researches how “play” has been a key force in the past and present process of creating America as a coherent and hegemonic “world,” from 1503 to the present. Play is an activity linked to change, serious even when frivolous, potentially transgressive even when rule-bound. Play intersects with the process of worlding (bringing a new world into existence) in liminal moments. In such unstable phases, when new worlds take shape, but are not yet consolidated, play comes to the fore as a way to probe possibilities. I seek out such historical moments of disruptive play when a new visual medium was introduced that contributed directly to tangible political change. I study four…
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