Hi Aharon, Sorry for not answering earlier.
After getting back from a conference late Sunday evening from Edinburgh I suddenly came down with a horrible tummy bug, which I am still fighting with at the moment. I am at home, and not supposed to be on-line - especially when I've got so much furtherfield things to get done, but I think our team will forgive me my brief jump back into the list before I run off to the toilet again -----ooooh.. I was first made aware of this a little while back when reading Mary Flanagan's excellent book 'Critical Play'. Not only that, Flanagan in her book also highlights many (many, many) wimmin, who have 'invented or been been part of making games with others' but, have been left out of history. I have played Monopoly mainly in my youthful days when on a family holiday for instance - either in a caravan or in some strange other worldly butlins camp, whilst it poured with rain outside (british weather). For me, it has always brought about a kind of angst between the players involved, almost as though the properties were real, as well as the money. I would rather play Lizzie Magie's original version 'The Landlord's Game'. Worth exploring if there is an updated version somewhere... Wishing you well. marc > Thanks Marc, for the tip! > > A very interesting link indeed - points how monopoly collapse into itself, > monopolising other people's efforts, and by connection, properties.. > > On a personal level, I never actually "got" the idea/motivation of the > game, why would one want to monoplise? Seems an arbitrary requirement by > the game. Indeed, now that the history of the game is mentioned, it looks > like the initial ideas, regardless of politics, were more interesting on > conceptual and desire/urge levels - at least for me. > I wonder if anyone else experience similar disinterested feelings in > playing monopoly..? > > Cheers and all the best! > > Aharon > xx > >> Monopoly was stolen from socialist land-reformers and perverted. >> >> Cory Doctorow. >> >> Christopher Ketcham's beautifully written Harper's feature on the >> history of Monopoly, "Monopoly Is Theft," traces the idealistic >> socialist land-reformers who created the game and modified it over >> decades, and the unscrupulous "inventor" who claimed to have created it >> and sold it to Parker Brothers. Monopoly's forerunner was "The >> Landlord's Game," created by Lizzie Magie, inspired by Henry George, who >> believed in the abolition of land-ownership and created a powerful >> movement to make this a reality. Many of George's devotees played The >> Landlord's Game, learning about the evils of real-estate and rentiers, >> and they modified the rules together, creating the game as we know it, >> changing its name to "monopoly" (all lower-case). Then "an unemployed >> steam-radiator repairman and part-time dog walker from Philadelphia >> named Charles Darrow" copied it, patented it, and sold it to Parker >> Brothers. The rest is history. >> >> http://boingboing.net/2012/11/05/monopoly-was-stolen-and-perver.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
