ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that one way of sensitizing ourselves to multiple assemblings is to work with Bennett's idea of "enchantment", which mingles affective, sensory engagement with a disruption to taken-for-granted ways of understanding the world. It also suggests that the perspective on assembling people have sketched above may be generative in thinking about writing of different kinds, including the established literacy practices encountered in schools. Virtual play is a generous description of engagement with Minecraft. It is borrowed from the work of Pearce and Artemesia and has been used to describe the ways "in which digital and networked media support play and play-related activities and interactions". It provides a way of talking about the sorts of affiliations and communities that grow up around a digital game like Minecraft and, indeed, in Chris's Minecraft Club. Virtual play is generous in the sense that it shows how there is far more at stake than just the game itself.
