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The world is born from zero : understanding speculation and video games / Cameron Kunzelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kunzelman, Cameron, author.
- Series:
- Video Games and the Humanities
- Video Games and the Humanities ; v.8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Speculative fiction.
- Genre:
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]
- Summary:
- The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of possible futures by following video game studies, media philosophy, and science fiction studies to their furthest reaches. Claiming that the best way to understand games is through rigorous formal analysis of their aesthetic strategies and the cultural context those strategies emerge from, Kunzelman investigates a diverse array of games like The Last of Us, VA-11 Hall-A, and Civilization VI in order to explore what science fiction video games can tell us about their genres, their ways of speculating, and how the medium of the video game does (or does not) direct us down experiential pathways that are both oppressive and liberatory. Taking a multidisciplinary look at these games, The World is Born From Zero offers a unique theorization of science fiction games that provides both science fiction studies and video game studies with new tools for thinking how this medium and mode inform each other.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Method for Thinking Speculation, Science Fiction, and Video Games
- Chapter 2 Potential Labor: On VA-11 HALL-A
- Chapter 3 Anti-Blackness and the Aesthetic Grounding of Speculation: On the Last of Us and the Last of Us Part 2
- Chapter 4 The Politics of Design in Climate Change Games
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Media
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kunzelman, Cameron The World Is Born from Zero
- ISBN:
- 9783110719451
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