Playing at a Distance Borderlands of Video Game Aesthetic

• मुख्य लेखक: Fizek, Sonia (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• श्रृंखला: The MIT Press
• विषय: Advertising & society; Computer games / online games: strategy guides; game studies; video games; play theory; media studies; media theory; aesthetics; media aesthetics; digital media; cultural studies; videogame philosophy; game ontology; non-human play; player; posthumanism; agency; interaction; intra-action; interactivity; interpassivity; control; automation; AI; self-play; auto-play; ambience; spectacle; spectatorship; idling
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An essential exploration of video game aesthetic that decenters the human player and challenges what it means to play. Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum theory? In Playing at a Di...