Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience

by Jonathan Boulter

A philosophical reading of video gaming that focuses on what it means to be a player.

In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman: Digital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334881
• ISBN13: 9780814334881
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"