UID:
almahu_9949481191702882
Format:
1 online resource (VIII, 198 p.)
ISBN:
9783110719451
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9783110766820
Series Statement:
Video Games and the Humanities , 8
Content:
The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of possible futures by following video game studies, media philosophy, and science fiction studies to their furthest reaches. Claiming that the best way to understand games is through rigorous formal analysis of their aesthetic strategies and the cultural context those strategies emerge from, Kunzelman investigates a diverse array of games like The Last of Us, VA-11 Hall-A, and Civilization VI in order to explore what science fiction video games can tell us about their genres, their ways of speculating, and how the medium of the video game does (or does not) direct us down experiential pathways that are both oppressive and liberatory. Taking a multidisciplinary look at these games, The World is Born From Zero offers a unique theorization of science fiction games that provides both science fiction studies and video game studies with new tools for thinking how this medium and mode inform each other.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1 A Method for Thinking Speculation, Science Fiction, and Video Games --
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Chapter 2 Potential Labor: On VA-11 HALL-A --
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Chapter 3 Anti-Blackness and the Aesthetic Grounding of Speculation: On the Last of Us and the Last of Us Part 2 --
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Chapter 4 The Politics of Design in Climate Change Games --
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Conclusion --
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Bibliography --
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Media --
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Index of Names --
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Index of Subjects
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1, De Gruyter, 9783110766820
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110992960
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110992939
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110719475
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110718324
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110719451
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719451
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110719451
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719451
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110719451
