Playing Computer Games: Somatic Experience and Experience of the Somatic - Softcover

Nielsen, Henrik Smed

 
9788791810213: Playing Computer Games: Somatic Experience and Experience of the Somatic
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8791810213 ISBN 13: 9788791810213
Verlag: Digital Aesthetic Research Center, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The book investigates the bodily dimension of the computer game experience – based on the overarching thesis that computer game-play is a bodily founded and bodily savoured activity. Apart from the ‘trivial’ fact that the player needs a body in order to grasp the controller, the player also senses his body working through the visceral ‘feel’ of the game. Assuming a phenomenological and somaesthetic perspective, the book addresses the bodily experience of playing computer games, theoretically and analytically covering the spectrum from ‘traditional’ controller-based computer game experiences to ones that require ‘full body’ gestures. Simultaneously being bodily engaged in the game and reflectively aware of this engagement (a somatic experience and an experience of the somatic) is suggested as the aesthetic form that computer games rely on, as well as play with.

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Verlag
Digital Aesthetic Research Center
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8791810213
ISBN 13 
9788791810213
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
278
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