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Presentation
Learning from Las Vegas: Addiction, Limbic Capitalism, and Pleasure Meccas
UNLV Gaming Podcasts
  • David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida
Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
5-9-2013
Publisher
UNLV Center for Gaming Research
Abstract

In this Gaming Research Colloquium talk, Courtwright (Presidential Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida) discusses three overlapping features of modern history: the global spread of potentially addictive pleasures, limbic capitalism (the production of goods and services that stimulate pleasure and emotional responses in the brain), and the rise of pleasure meccas. He traces the economic, social, technological, and ideological changes that led to the rise of the meccas, and several potential challenges to them.

Keywords
  • Compulsive behavior,
  • Nevada – Las Vegas,
  • Pleasure
File Format
mp3
File Size
48.141 KB
Run Time
00:51:19
Language
English
Comments

mp3 Audio file size: 47.0 megabytes

Attached file: Flyer

Citation Information
David T. Courtwright. "Learning from Las Vegas: Addiction, Limbic Capitalism, and Pleasure Meccas" (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_courtwright/8/