Hybrid Ludic Engagement: A Manifesto

Abstract

A manifesto is partial, not balanced. A manifesto is normative, not analytic. A manifesto moves in declarations, not arguments. A manifesto wants to affect change here and now, not describe eternal truths. A manifesto is as much a formal performance of its own program as a description thereof. A manifesto, in short, is a rhetorical intervention that expresses an aesthetic/political vision through form and content in order to shape the present. (Caws 2001)