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.
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