The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice: Procedural Habits

by Steve Holmes

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing and rhetoric) and embodiment. The book demonstrates how Aristotle's understanding of character (ethos), habit (hexis), and nature (phusis) can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367890909
• ISBN13: 9780367890902
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages