What could playing with pigs do to us? Game design as multispecies philosophy

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One farmer asked Clemens Driessen it pigs would enjoy the sorts of video games her kids play on their Nintendo Wii. The suggestion drove the philosopher to contact the Utrecht School of the Arts to collaborate on video games for pigs. It started out as a way to relieve the boredom of pigs awaiting slaughter. But game design initiative Playing with Pigs quickly evolved to become something more than a simple video game that gets humans to 'play with their food'. Designing a game on a farm with pigs generated ambivalent responses with both human and nonhuman potential users. As 'multispecies philosophy', the genre of interspecies video games is explored for changing our experiences of subjectivity, mind and community.

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