Unit Operations
An Approach to Videogame Criticism
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- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2008
Summary
In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames- Bogost suggests that any medium-from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art-can be read as a configurative system of discrete, interlocking units of meaning, and he illustrates this method of analysis with examples from all these f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262524872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262524872 |
| Author: | Ian Bogost |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Unit Operations |
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“Bogost challenges humanists and technologists to pay attention to one another, something they desperately need to do as computation accelerates us into the red zones of widespread virtual reality. This book gives us what we need to meet that challenge: a general theory for understanding creativity under computation, one that will apply increasingly to all creativity in the future. Not only that, but we get an outstanding theory of videogame criticism in the mix as well. Highly recommended.”–Edward Castronova, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
About The Author
Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames- Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).
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