[Commlist] new book: Gaming Utopia

*Gaming Utopia*

Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media

*Claudia Costa Pederson***

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253054494/gaming-utopia/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253054494/gaming-utopia/>

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In /Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media/, Claudia 
Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video 
games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, 
heterosexual, male, corporatized leisure activity and reenvisions it as 
a catalyst for social change.

By looking at over fifty projects that together span a century and the 
world, Pederson explores the capacity for sociopolitical commentary in 
virtual and digital realms and highlights contributions to the history 
of gaming by women, queer, and transnational artists. The result is a 
critical tool for understanding video games as imaginative forms of 
living that offer alternatives to our current reality.

With an interdisciplinary approach, /Gaming Utopia/emphasizes how game 
design, creation, and play can become political forms of social protest 
and examines the ways that games as art open doors to a more just and 
peaceful world.

*Claudia Costa Pederson*is Associate Professor of Art History at Wichita 
State University and Curator of New Media for the Finger Lakes 
Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College. She has contributed to 
multiple journals and edited volumes on film and media.



*Indiana University Press**| April 2021 | 280pp | 9780253054494 | PB | 
£20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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