A Discipline is Always Born Twice1: Is there Room for Interdisciplinary Humanities Methods in Game Studies Scholarship Today?

Abstract

This short “extended abstract” paper is intended as a provocation (some might say a polemic) whose goal it is to spark a greater discussion, within the field of game studies at large, about 1) possible reasons for and answers to a growing lack of interest in interdisciplinarity within the field and 2) how, or even whether at all, to achieve an increased openness to interdisciplinary methods originating, specifically, within the humanities. The remainder of the abstract then puts forward an analytic stance which I term “humanistic sensibility.”