Playing at a Distance by Sonia Fizek - ISBN: 9780262544627
Paperback
Video games play us? Explore the future where humans aren’t needed.

Playing at a Distance

Borderlands of Video Game Aesthetic

  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    10 January 2023

Summary

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 Distance, Sonia Fizek engages with these and many more daunting questions, forging new ways to think and talk about games and play that decenter the human player and explore a variet…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262544627
ISBN-10:0262544628
Author:Sonia Fizek
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:10 January 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Sonia Fizek

Sonia Fizek is an associate professor of games and media studies at the Cologne Game Lab at Technical University of Cologne, Germany.

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