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Gaming the System - Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Hardcover)
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Gaming the System - Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Hardcover)
Series: Digital Game Studies
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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 Zizek-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.
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