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Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
Jonathan Boulter
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Paperback. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman , Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analysing video games and the player experience philosophically. Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCA; UGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience, author Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analyzing video games and the player experience philosophically. Finding points of departure in phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Boulter argues that we need to think seriously about what it means to enter into ... Read more
In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience, author Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analyzing video games and the player experience philosophically. Finding points of departure in phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Boulter argues that we need to think seriously about what it means to enter into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814334881
SKU
V9780814334881
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About Jonathan Boulter
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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