Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) - Softcover

Boulter, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814334881 ISBN 13: 9780814334881

Verlag: Wayne State University Press, 2015

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A philosophical reading of video gaming that focuses on what it means to be a player.

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Jonathan Boulter is associate professor of English at Western University. He is the author of Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett; Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed; and Melancholy and the Archive.

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In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity.<i> Parables of the Posthuman </i>approaches the direct experience of gaming by asking: What does it mean for the player to enter the machinic "world" of the game? What forms of subjectivity does the game offer to the player? What happens to consciousness itself when one plays? Author Jonathan Boulter finds points of departure in phenomenology and psychoanalysis to analyze the experience of particular role-playing video games, including<i> Fallout 3, Half-Life 2, BioShock, Crysis 2,</i> and <i>Metal Gear Solid 4.</i>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814334881
• ISBN 13: 9780814334881
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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