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

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

David J. Gunkel

4.9/5 (20347 ratings)

Description:Gaming the System takes 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 Žižek—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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Digital Game Studies). To get started finding Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Digital Game Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0253035759

Description: Gaming the System takes 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 Žižek—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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Digital Game Studies). To get started finding Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Digital Game Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

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

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

More Books

Robot Rights

Robot Rights

The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

Deconstruction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Deconstruction (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology by David J. Gunkel (2007-05-01)

Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology by David J. Gunkel (2007-05-01)

Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age

Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age

Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix

Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix

The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (MIT Press) by David J. Gunkel (2012-07-13)

The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (MIT Press) by David J. Gunkel (2012-07-13)

Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology (Philosophy/Communication) by David J. Gunkel (Editor) � Visit Amazon's David J. Gunkel Page search results for this author David J. Gunkel (Editor) (15-May-2007) Paperback

Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology (Philosophy/Communication) by David J. Gunkel (Editor) � Visit Amazon's David J. Gunkel Page search results for this author David J. Gunkel (Editor) (15-May-2007) Paperback

Hacking Cyberspace (Polemics)

Hacking Cyberspace (Polemics)