It's a study of the separation from reality created through the plasticized world of escape through desperate gambling. Money, already an object dependant on it's holder for meaning, is further abstracted and turned into a little plastic chip, to be stacked with it's fellows or scrapped into a bucketed abyss below the table.
excerpt from
The House Always Wins ; Croupier and the Thrill of the Invisible Heist
Daniel Carlson
2015
Mike Hodges
1998
https://musings.oscilloscope.net/post/129790228626/the-house-always-wins-croupier-and-the-thrill
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