Is this a play? For a phenomenology of the play: the “magic circle” as mediator of social relations and experiences

• Autor(a) principal: Macedo, Tarcízio
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Filho, Otacílio Amaral
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Verso e Reverso (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/versoereverso/article/view/ver.2016.30.73.08

The interactional phenomenological perspective of the play, under the aegis of the “frame of play” or “magic circle”, as mediator to understand the social suggested here is the proposal of a set of questions. Less than the draft of a theory, this work is constructed as a roadmap for development and deployment theoretical and methodological later. We intend to discuss and propose a new interpretation of a classic concept of game studies, the “magic circle”, holding it as another possible social frame and suggesting the existence of a phenomenology of play responsible for mediating social relations and practices from game logic. We believe that this logic of the “magic circle” is extended to simple everyday actions. Our hypothesis is that exists an appropriation and frame (in) aware of the paradoxical character and metacommunicative of the play. We believe that is a crystallization of the play on common sense, as the actors to mediate various social relationships, as opinion and even mask real discursive intentions or acts through linguistic mechanisms commonly evoke them.Keywords: Game Studies, social frameworks, social worlds, magic circle, social experience, Actor-Network Theory.