Thinking in terms of fixed nodes and genres tends to over-emphasize the idea that games can be solved and under-emphasize the role of context.
"Most of the big commercial successes have tended to emphasise a certain set of genres.
Television also plays with a distinct set of genres (sitcoms, procedurals, and soap operas among them), each with its own history and set of aesthetic values.
The argument set forth by the interconnection of genres is that writers speak for, about, to, and within a diverse community.
Flying Lotus's D.J. set during the CMJ Music Marathon lurched and skidded happily free of fixed genres.
He fast disproved the grumble of his ageing enfant terrible, Crispin Hershey, in The Bone Clocks – "in publishing it's easier to change your body than it is to switch genre" – by never having a fixed genre to switch.
But the print medium can fix that set of problems.
The exhibition is a mix of genres.
Play a variety of genres.
Try different kinds of genres.
