Monday, 29 June 2009

kriegspiel

the kriegspiel or the Game of War
Guy Debord believed that the board game that he designed in 1977, after years having the idea in his mind, would be his legacy.

“I succeeded, a long time ago, in presenting the basics of [war] on a rather simple board game,” he wrote in 1989. “The surprises of this kriegspiel seem inexhaustible; and I fear that this may well be the only one of my works that anyone will dare acknowledge as having some value.” Guy Debord 1989

more on Kriegspiel
and trace its philosophical roots in Alexander's Galloway essay

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