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Parables of the Posthuman - Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Paperback)
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Parables of the Posthuman - Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to
extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous
entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field
of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical
analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the
Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience,
author Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analyzing video games
and the player experience philosophically. Finding points of
departure in phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Boulter argues that
we need to think seriously about what it means to enter into a
relationship with the game machine and to assume (or to have
conferred upon you) a machinic, posthuman identity. Parables of the
Posthuman approaches the experience of gaming by asking: What does
it mean for the player to enter the machinic "world" of the game?
What forms of subjectivity does the game offer to the player? What
happens to consciousness itself when one plays? To this end,
Boulter analyzes the experience of particular role-playing video
games, including Fallout 3, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Crysis 2, and
Metal Gear Solid 4. These games both thematize the idea of the
posthuman-the games are "about" subjects whose physical and
intellectual capacities are extended through machine or other
prosthetic means-and also enact an experience of the posthuman for
the player, who becomes more than what he was as he plays the game.
Boulter concludes by exploring how the game acts as a parable of
what the human, or posthuman, may look like in times to come.
Academics with an interest in the intersection of philosophy,
psychoanalysis, and popular culture forms and video gamers with an
interest in thinking about the implications of gaming will enjoy
this volume.
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