A Minor Jurisprudence of Play: Becoming Jurisprudents Through Play in the Majora's Mask

A minor jurisprudence is a productive mode of encountering video games for the purpose of describing the jurisdictional techniques exemplified in them. To give effect to a minor jurisprudence in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, the author argues that play must be seen as a critical component of finding and participating in the production of the space and time of jurisdiction: play underlies, mechanically and narratively, the production of Termina’s lawscape. A jurisprudential reading of play – particularly as the player-as-jurisprudent participates in the production of Termina’s lawscape – is made possible through the game’s virtuality and dimensionality (time, persona, and movement). The chapter concludes by situating this intervention in legal theory to help characterise a minor jurisprudence of play – aesthetically, representationally, and materially – as world-making.