The State of Play : : Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture
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Introduction: post-escapis: a new discourse on video game culture / Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson -- Advent / Leigh Alexander -- Bow, nigger / Ian Shanahan -- Love, twine, and the end of the world / Anna Anthropy -- The natural: the parameters of afro / Evan Narcisse -- What it feels like to play the bad guy / Hussein Ibrahim -- A game I had to make / Zoe Quinn -- Your humanity is another castle: terror dreams and the harassment of women / Anita Sarkeesian & Katherine Cross -- The end of gamers / Dan Golding -- The joy of virtual violence / Cara Ellison & Brendan Keogh -- The squalid grace of Flappy Bird / Ian Bogost -- The making of Dust: architecture and the art of level design / David Johnston -- Game over? A cold war kid reflects on apocalyptic video games / William Knoblauch -- Ludus interruptus: video games and sexuality / Merritt Kopas -- The God in th emachine: occultism, demiurgic theology, and gnostic self-knowledge in Japanese video games / Ola Wikander.
Sixteen contributors including video game creators, media critics and Internet celebrities discuss the state and stakes of video game culture and describe how the digital world has collided with real-life art, sex and race and class politics. --Publisher's description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781609806392
1609806395
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Goldberg, Dan
Larsson, Linus.
SUBJECTS
Video games -- Social aspects.