Article in "Wijsgerig Perspectief"
The Dutch popular philosophical journal Wijsgerig Perspectief (in the person of guest-editor Olga Crapels ) asked me to write an article for an issue on survival, namely, an article about survival in roleplaying games. I was happy to oblige, and wrote an article called Een spel met de dood , which would translate as A game with death . Normally, you would have to pay a stiff 13 euros to obtain a copy of the magazine , but it appears that the publisher has decided to put my article up at the website as the free teaser. So you can get it by clicking this link . Absolutely no guarantees that it will stay online! Of course, you'll still have to be able to read Dutch in order to understand it. For those who don't read Dutch, I will give a very short summary. Stripped to its bare essentials, the argument is: The experience of the fight for survival has disappeared almost completely from contemporary Western life. But we still want to experience it vicariously or as an illusion. (T