Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism /
Bogost, Ian,
Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism / Ian Bogost. - xv, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index.
Unit operations -- Structuralism and computation -- Humanism and object technology -- Comparative videogame criticism -- Videogames and expression -- Encounters across platforms -- Cellular automata and simulation -- An alternative to fun -- The simulation gap -- Complex networks -- Complex worlds -- Critical networks
This is a critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artefacts - whether videogames, literature, or film - as configurative systems of interlocking units of meaning.
026202599X 9780262025997
2005056105
Computer games--Philosophy
Computer games--Sociological aspects
QA76.76.C672 / B65 2006
794.8
Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism / Ian Bogost. - xv, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index.
Unit operations -- Structuralism and computation -- Humanism and object technology -- Comparative videogame criticism -- Videogames and expression -- Encounters across platforms -- Cellular automata and simulation -- An alternative to fun -- The simulation gap -- Complex networks -- Complex worlds -- Critical networks
This is a critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artefacts - whether videogames, literature, or film - as configurative systems of interlocking units of meaning.
026202599X 9780262025997
2005056105
Computer games--Philosophy
Computer games--Sociological aspects
QA76.76.C672 / B65 2006
794.8