[ecrea] New book: Gaming the System - David J. Gunkel

New publication from Indiana University Press

*Gaming the System*

Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds

*David J. Gunkel***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/gaming-the-system_**__*


/Gaming the System/takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower 
and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David 
J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions—put forth by noted 
thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Žižek—can help 
us explore and conceptualize recent developments in video games, game 
studies, and virtual worlds. Furthermore, Gunkel interprets computer 
games as doing philosophy, arguing that the game world is a medium that 
provides opportunities to model and explore fundamental questions about 
the nature of reality, personal identity, social organization, and moral 
conduct. By using games to investigate and innovate in the area of 
philosophical thinking, Gunkel shows how areas such as game governance 
and manufacturers’ terms of service agreements actually grapple with the 
social contract and produce new postmodern forms of social organization 
that challenge existing modernist notions of politics and the nation 
state. In this critically engaging study, Gunkel considers virtual 
worlds and video games as more than just "fun and games," presenting 
them as sites for new and original thinking about some of the deepest 
questions concerning the human experience.

*David J. Gunkel*is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Communication 
Technology at Northern Illinois University. He is author or editor of 
seven books, /including Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, 
Technology, The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, 
and Ethics,/ and /Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix/.

*Indiana University Press**| Digital Game Studies | May 2018 | 264pp 
| 9780253035714 | Paperback | ?28.99**

*Price subject to change.


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