Bounce
Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play
$125.04
- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2026
Summary
A lively and insightful account that follows the bouncing ball through the history of nonelectronic and electronic games.
Bounce follows an array of bouncing balls through the histories of nonelectronic and electronic games, across the spectrum of play, game, and sport, and into the domains of physics, material science, animation, and computing. The book’s focus on bounce sidesteps the focus on play found in much of the game studies literature and broadens the scope of game h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553216 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026255321X |
| Author: | Carlin Wing |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Game Histories |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“Like all great athletes, Carlin Wing makes the difficult feel effortless: Filled with lateral trajectories and unexpected ricochets and guided by a deep, clear logic, Bounce is a sustained volley, a kinetic masterpiece that absolutely flies.”
—Finn Brunton, coauthor of Obfuscation and author of Spam
“A brilliant and original book—wholly inhabited, world-enlarging, full of surprises. Ultimately, Bounce is an invitation to sit courtside and watch Wing’s live mind, quick hands, and generous heart play with ‘elastic materials.’”
—D. Graham Burnett, Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention
“Carefully researched, innovatively conceived, and beautifully written, Bounce reveals the multiple ways that technological development and diverse social conditions impact the material trajectories and cultural meanings of play, games, and sports.”
—Mary G. McDonald, Homer C. Rice Chair of Sports and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
Carlin Wing
Carlin Wing is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Scripps College. She is coeditor of The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation and EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game.
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