INTRODUCTION
Mapping the Machine Zone
On a weekday evening in the fall of 1999, Mollie and I sit at the floor-length windows of a room high in the South Tower of the Main Street Station Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Blinking bri…A few months after speaking with Mollie in Main Street Station’s South Tower, I found myself in the midst of another conversation about the
Caption: Figure i.1. Opening day at the Global Gaming Exposition, 2005. Courtesy of Oscar Einzig Pho…preoccupations of contemporary culture. But what kind of clues, and how to access them? Unlike Goffman’s card gaming or Geertz’s cockfighting, machine gambling is not a symbolically profound, richly dimensional space whose “depth” can be pl…
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