I just bought this book and have started working through it - and the purchase was largely based on this interview.
"Boellstorff makes the case that the counterpoint to virtual worlds is not the real world, but the actual. And that this virtuality includes two important things: it is virtual (of course, but he explores this with incredible insight and finesse) meaning that you are never QUITE there, and that this is incredibly important; and two, it is grounded in craft, in techne, and that virtual worlds may be a harbinger of a shift from a knowledge or information culture, into a craft-based one….or perhaps a mash-up of the two, what’s now coming to be known as “crafty knowledge”."
I'm also happy to note that I said I was "working through this book" and just reading it. I like reading carefully researched work with footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies...I love work that pushes me down other avenues and I look forward to getting thru this book.
**I should also include the link to Dusan Writer's Top 5 Virtual World Books.
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