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Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Digital Game Studies) - Tapa blanda

Gunkel, David J

 
9780253035714: Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Digital Game Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0253035716 ISBN 13: 9780253035714
Editorial: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2018

Sinopsis

Gaming the System takes continental philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions--put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Zizek--can help us explore and conceptualize recent developments in video games, game studies, and virtual worlds. Furthermore, Gunkel interprets computer games as doing philosophy, arguing that the game world is a medium that provides opportunities to model and explore fundamental questions about the nature of reality, personal identity, social organization, and moral conduct. By using games to investigate and innovate in the area of philosophical thinking, Gunkel shows how areas such as game governance and manufacturers' terms of service agreements actually grapple with the social contract and produce new postmodern forms of social organization that challenge existing modernist notions of politics and the nation state. In this critically engaging study, Gunkel considers virtual worlds and video games as more than just "fun and games," presenting them as sites for new and original thinking about some of the deepest questions concerning the human experience.

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David J. Gunkel is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of six books, including Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology, The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics, and Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix.

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Indiana University Press (IPS)
Año de publicación
2018
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0253035716
ISBN 13 
9780253035714
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