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Gaming the System - Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Paperback)
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Gaming the System - Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds (Paperback)
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 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.
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