My book, Toy Theory, will be published by MIT Press in 2023. Here’s a section of the proposal:
Headline
Rethinking culture, media, technology and the human through play with objects and materials. Placing toys at the centre of the postdigital era through a philosophy and genealogy of play with objects, of toying and being toyed with.
Key features
- Sustained and original explication of the nature and ontology of toys
- Rethinks the focus and objects of the philosophy of technology
- Proposes ‘toying’ as a key concept for reimagining technocultural relationships
- Genealogy of toys as intersections between imagination and ideas, and material and technical possibilities
- Draws on current thinking on new materialism, critical posthumanism and game studies to account for the agency and affects of nonhuman dimensions of play and imagination
- Original theoretical work on imagination and animation as distributed across the human and nonhuman in the everyday
- Insights and critical frameworks for the study of postdigital toys and game systems
