Gamer Theory
Author: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0674044835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is. Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.