‘The code which governs war and play’: Computer games, sport and modern combat – Jeff Sparrow

In 1908, the head of Melbourne’s Wesley Grammar School, Dr Watkin, explained that “as [boys] strove on the football field or the river, so it might be that in the near future they would have to fight for their motherland, their King and the Commonwealth” (Crotty 2001, 87). A few years later, with Watkin’s grim … Continue reading ‘The code which governs war and play’: Computer games, sport and modern combat – Jeff Sparrow