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Playing at a Distance

An essential exploration of video game aesthetic that decenters the human player and challenges what it means to play. Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum theory? In Playing at a Di...

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Main Author: Fizek, Sonia
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2022
Subjects:
game studies
video games
play theory
media studies
media theory
aesthetics
media aesthetics
digital media
cultural studies
videogame philosophy
game ontology
non-human play
player
posthumanism
agency
interaction
intra-action
interactivity
interpassivity
control
automation
AI
self-play
auto-play
ambience
spectacle
spectatorship
idling
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thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UD Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides::UDX Computer games / online games: strategy guides
Online Access:ONIX_20221118_9780262372190_12
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