The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power

by James Ash

In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing upon examples from videogame design and work from post-phenomenology, speculative realism, new materialism and media theory, Ash argues that interfaces create envelopes, or localised foldings of space time, around which bodily and perceptual capacities are organised for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501320009
• ISBN13: 9781501320002
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"