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Playing Utopia

Author : Benjamin Beil
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839450500
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Playing Utopia written by Benjamin Beil and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why? This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.

Playing Dystopia

Author : Gerald Farca
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839445973
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Playing Dystopia written by Gerald Farca and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own ›offline‹ environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments. In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games.

Seven Days in Utopia

Author : David L. Cook
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310336198
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Seven Days in Utopia written by David L. Cook and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golfers and non-golfers alike will be moved by this powerful story of transformation revealing the secrets to success in life beyond success in our game or work. Luke Chisolm is a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. But when his first big shot turns into a very public disaster, he escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas. There, he meets Johnny Crawford, an eccentric rancher with a passion for teaching truth, whose faith forces Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future. Written by author and performance psychologist Dr. David Cook--who has worked with NBA World Champions, National Collegiate Champions, PGA Tour Champions, Olympians, and many Fortune 500 companies--this remarkable and encouraging story reminds us to get our game, and our life, back on course. Now a major motion picture starring Academy Award Winner Robert Duvall and Lucas Black! Also published as Golf's Sacred Journey.

Strategy Game Programming with DirectX 9.0

Author : Todd Barron
Publisher : Wordware Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1556229224
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Book Synopsis Strategy Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 by : Todd Barron

Download or read book Strategy Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 written by Todd Barron and published by Wordware Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives hobbyists and professional programmers the knowledge necessary to create a real time strategy game of their own.

Metaphysics and the Good

Author : Samuel Newlands
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199542686
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics and the Good written by Samuel Newlands and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays by leading philosophers dedicated to exploring many of the facets of Robert M. Adams's thought, a philosophical outlook that combines Christian theism, neo-Platonism, moral realism, metaphysical idealism, and a commitment to both historical sensitivity and rigorous analytic engagement.

Utopia

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027303583
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Fictional Practices of Spirituality I

Author : Leonardo Marcato
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839461928
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Fictional Practices of Spirituality I written by Leonardo Marcato and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Fictional Practices of Spirituality« provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video games and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching practices. It features analyses of spirituality as gameplay facilitator, sacred spaces and architecture in video game geography, religion in video games and spiritual acts and their dramaturgic function in video games, tabletop, or LARP, among other topics. The contributors offer a first-time ever comprehensive overview of play-rites as spiritual incentives and playful spirituality in various medial incarnations.

Games and Sport in Everyday Life

Author : Robert S. Perinbanayagam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317259386
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Games and Sport in Everyday Life written by Robert S. Perinbanayagam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero-the starting place for the next generation of theorists who study the self, narrative theory, and the place of games and sport in everyday life. A stunning accomplishment by one of America's major social theorists." Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Games of many kinds have been played in all cultures throughout human history. This wide-ranging book explores the social and psychological processes involved in the playing of games. One player (or team) seeks to outwit another by undertaking various physical and communicative moves-not unlike conversations. Games have well-formed "narrative" structures, analogous to myths, that are enacted by each participant to give play to his/her self and its attendant emotions. These plays of the self enable each agent to seek adventures and heroic moments. Going beyond the mythmaking and catharsis that may be achieved by individuals, the author shows how games have been devised and played in particular societies and eras as means of promoting specific ideologies of a society, even social ideals such as utopias.

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

Author : Raphael Kabo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350288578
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature by : Raphael Kabo

Download or read book Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature written by Raphael Kabo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'. Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.

Thinking History

Author : Dr. Ruei-hong Tang
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524577944
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Thinking History written by Dr. Ruei-hong Tang and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a deeply beautiful book on history as thinking and thinking as history or thinking history. Thinking spreads deep into time on all themes thinkable, including scientific analyses, self-reflections, dilemmas, paradoxes, and life-essential prudence. Besides, history involves historical process; likewise, this book historically involves its writing process in its own content reflected on. Reading this book reads thinking history as such.

The Grasshopper

Author : Bernard Suits
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551117720
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Grasshopper written by Bernard Suits and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." The short book Suits wrote demonstrating precisely that is as playful as it is insightful, as stimulating as it is delightful. Suits not only argues that games can be meaningfully defined; he also suggests that playing games is a central part of the ideal of human existence, so games belong at the heart of any vision of Utopia. Originally published in 1978, The Grasshopper is now re-issued with a new introduction by Thomas Hurka and with additional material (much of it previously unpublished) by the author, in which he expands on the ideas put forward in The Grasshopper and answers some questions that have been raised by critics.

Playing Software

Author : Miguel Sicart
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047721
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Playing Software written by Miguel Sicart and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whether we interact with video games or spreadsheets or social media, playing with software shapes every facet of our lives. In Playing Software, Miguel Sicart delves into why we play with computers, how that play shapes culture and society, and the threat posed by malefactors using play to weaponize everything from conspiracy theories to extractive capitalism. Starting from the controversial idea that software is an essential agent in the information age, Sicart considers our culture in general—and our way of thinking about and creating digital technology in particular—as a consequence of interacting with software’s agency through play. As Sicart shows, playing shapes software agency. In turn, software shapes our agency as we adapt and relate to it through play. That play drives the creation of new cultural, social, and political forms. Sicart also reveals the role of make-believe in driving our playful engagement with the digital sphere. From there, he discusses the cybernetic theory of digital play and what we can learn from combining it with the idea that playfulness can mean pleasurable interaction with human and nonhuman agents inside the boundaries of a computational system. Finally, he critiques the instrumentalization of play as a tool wielded by platform capitalism.

Vintage Games

Author : Bill Loguidice
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136137580
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Vintage Games written by Bill Loguidice and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time, including Super Mario Bros., Grand Theft Auto III, Doom, The Sims and many more. Drawing on interviews as well as the authors' own lifelong experience with videogames, the book discusses each game's development, predecessors, critical reception, and influence on the industry. It also features hundreds of full-color screenshots and images, including rare photos of game boxes and other materials. Vintage Games is the ideal book for game enthusiasts and professionals who desire a broader understanding of the history of videogames and their evolution from a niche to a global market.

Philosophical Perspectives on Play

Author : Malcolm MacLean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317554310
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Play written by Malcolm MacLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value. Made up of contributions from leading international thinkers and inviting readers to explore the presumptions often attached to play and playfulness, the book considers ways that play in ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds can inform understandings of each, critiquing established norms and encouraging scepticism about the practice and experience of play. Organised around four central themes -- play(ing) at the limits, aesthetics, metaphysics/ontology and ethics -- the book extends and challenges notions of play by drawing on issues emerging in sport, gaming, literature, space and art, with specific attention paid to disruption and danger. It is intended to provide scholars and practitioners working in the spheres of play, education, games, sport and related subjects with a deeper understanding of philosophical thought and to open dialogue across these disciplines.

The Landscape of Utopia

Author : Tim Waterman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000538494
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Landscape of Utopia written by Tim Waterman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly original and engaging style by academic and theorist Tim Waterman. Exploring power and democracy, and their shaping of public space and public life, taste, etiquette, belief and ritual, and foodways in community and civic life, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries. It discusses landscape in its broadest sense, as a descriptor of the relationship between people and place that occurs everywhere on land, from cities to countryside, suburb to wilderness. With over fifty black and white illustrations interspersing the twenty-six chapters, this is a book for professionals, academics, and students to dive into and spark discussion on new modes of thinking in the wake of unfolding global crises, such as COVID-19, climate change, fascism 2.0, and beyond.

Playing with Reality

Author : Kelly Clancy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059353820X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Playing with Reality written by Kelly Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They’re also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, political science, evolutionary biology, the development of computers and AI, cutting-edge neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. Neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy shows how intertwined games have been with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behavior and brought us to the brink of annihilation—yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology design. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy. In this revelatory new work, Clancy makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature and our actions.

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures

Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030886549
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures written by Peter Marks and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.