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Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism
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Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism

Author: Ian Bogost
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artifacts--whether videogames, literature, or film--as configurative systems of interlocking  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Bogost, Ian.
Unit operations.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006
(DLC) 2005056105
(OCoLC)62110050
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Ian Bogost
ISBN: 9780262268929 0262268922 1423772504 9781423772507 026202599X 9780262025997
OCLC Number: 68907033
Description: 1 online resource (xv, 243 p.)
Contents: Unit operations --
Structuralism and computation --
Humanism and object technology --
Comparative videogame criticism --
Videogames and expression --
Encounters across platforms --
Cellular automata and simulation --
An alternative to fun --
The simulation gap --
Complex networks --
Complex worlds --
Critical networks.
Responsibility: Ian Bogost.

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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. Read more...

 
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