Dialectics of Go

The game of Go has long captivated players because of the vast complexity in the game's dynamics, but throughout the game's history it has also been discussed in the same breath as works of philosophy. The structure and play of Go reflects various philosophies of dualism, so let's discuss the game in conversation with those philosophies. Bibliography: Badiou, Alain. 1988. "Being and Event". Translated by Oliver Feltham. Bloomsbury Publishing. De Koven, Bernard. 2013. "The Well-Played Game". MIT Press. Dou, Ze-Li. 2020. "Understanding Chinese Culture via the Board Game Go". Education About Asia 25, no. 1. https://www.asianstudies.org/publicat... Lantz, Frank. 2014. "Hearts and Minds". Game Developer's Conference.    • Hearts and Minds   Lantz, Frank. 2011. "Life and Death and Middle Pair: Go, Poker and the Sublime". Game Developer's Conference. https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014383... Maybee, Julie E. 2020. "Hegel's Dialectics". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/w... Pirsig, Robert. 1974. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". William Morrow and Company. Sensei's Library. n.d. "Solving Go". Last modified September 11, 2023. https://senseis.xmp.net/?SolvingGo Sicart, Miguel. 2011. "Against Procedurality". Game Studies 11, no. 3. https://gamestudies.org/1103/articles...