Virtual Ninja Manifesto (eBook)

Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism

Chris Goto-Jones (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
186 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-983-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Draws on the traditions of the martial arts to ask whether playing violent videogames actually transform gamers into better people.

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Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the ';virtual ninja' can emerge as an aspirational figure in the twenty-first century. Engaging with the literature around embodied cognition, Zen philosophy and techno-Orientalism it argues that virtual martial arts can be reconstructed as vehicles for moral cultivation and self-transformation. It argues that the kind of training required to master videogames approximates the kind of training described in Zen literature on the martial arts. Arguing that shift from the actual dojo to a digital dojo represents only a change in the technological means of practice, it offers a new manifesto for gamers to signify their gaming practice. Moving beyond perennial debates about the role of violence in videogames and the manipulation of moral choices in gamic environments it explores the possibility that games promote and assess spiritual development.

Autor

lt;span>Chris Goto-Jones is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow of SOAS, University of London.

Inhalt

Introduction: (Video)games and violence/1. Violence and Self-Cultivation: Embodied Orientalism/2. Digital Embodiment and the Dōjō/3. The Virtual Ninja Manifesto/4. From Techno-Orientalism to Gamic Orientalism/Conclusion: Videogames and Emancipation/Bibliography/Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Martial Arts Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 10 Illustrations including: - 10 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Asian cultural studies • Comparative/World Philosophies • Conflict, Change and Disruption • Cultural Studies • digital • East Asian Philosophies • Martial Arts Studies • Science, technology and Culture • videogames • virtual
• ISBN-10: 1-78348-983-9 / 1783489839
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-983-1 / 9781783489831