But the TINAG rhetorical disavowal is not universally recognised. Situations arise whereby externalised participants, spectators and others without the knowledge or context of ARGs, misrecognise the fictional nature of the game taking place…SHERMER, M.: Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise. Released on 1st December 2008. [online]. [2022-05-23]. Available at: <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/patternicity-finding-meaningful-patterns/>.
SCHEC…[^39]: See also: SUTTON-SMITH, B.: The Ambiguity of Play. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1997.
[^40]: SCHECHNER, R.: The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance. London, New York, NY : Routledge, 1993, p. 38.
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Brian Sutton-Smith
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Brian Sutton-Smith is a foundational theorist of play whose work on the fundamental ambiguity of play—the idea that play resists singular definition and contains irreducible multiplicity—enables critical analysis of how ARGs and immersive games generate meaning through misrecognition and performative slippage. His *The Ambiguity of Play* anchors arguments about how players and non-players navigate the unstable boundary between fiction and reality, particularly when rhetorical disavowal (like TINAG—"This Is Not A Game") breaks down in practice. The citation appears as a grounding reference for understanding play's inherent resistance to capture by singular interpretive frames.
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