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‘The Alexandrian Condition’: Suits on Boredom, Death, and Utopian Games
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 13 (3-4):363-371 (2019)
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ABSTRACTI argue that the apparently exclusive choice between Suits’ utopia of gameplay and death by suicide is a false dilemma, one which obscures a ‘third way’ of positive boredom. Further, I offe...Author's Profile
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