Research Catalog

Title

Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism / Ian Bogost.

Author

Bogost, Ian

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2008.

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Details

Description

xv, 243 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This is a critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artefacts - whether videogames, literature, or film - as configurative systems of interlocking units of meaning.

Subject

• Video games > Design
• Video games > Philosophy
• Video games > Social aspects

Note

• Originally published: 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I: From systems to units. 1. Unit operations -- 2. Structuralism and computation -- 3. Humanism and object technology -- II: Procedural criticism. 4. Comparative videogame criticism -- 5. Videogames and expression -- 6. Encounters across platforms -- III: Procedural subjectivity. 7. Cellular automata and simulation -- 8. An alternative to fun -- 9. The simulation gap -- IV: From design to configuration. 10. Complex networks -- 11. Complex worlds -- 12. Critical networks.

ISBN

• 9780262524872 (pbk.)
• 0262524872 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 183146832
• SCSB-12343162

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library