Gaming the System

Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds

David J. Gunkel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2018
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03571-4 (ISBN)

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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.

David J. Gunkel is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of six books, including Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology, The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics, and Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Terra Nova 2.0
2. The Real Problem
3. Social Contract 2.0
4. In the Face of Others
5. Open Ended Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Digital Game Studies
Zusatzinfo	28 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-253-03571-6 / 0253035716
ISBN-13	978-0-253-03571-4 / 9780253035714
Zustand	Neuware