[Commlist] New book! Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities

Poppy Wilde is delighted to announce the publication of the monograph, 
/Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities 
<https://www.routledge.com/Posthuman-Gaming-Avatars-Gamers-and-Entangled-Subjectivities/Wilde/p/book/9781032055039>/, 
with Routledge in their Advances in Game Studies book series.

The book is available to purchase now, with 20% off using discount code 
ESA32. Two chapters are also available open access for free use, with 
thanks to the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research at 
Birmingham City University.

/"Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled 
Subjectivities/ explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in 
the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game /World of Warcraft/, 
to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects, and embodiments – 
what it means and how it feels to be posthuman.

With a focus on posthuman subjectivity, Wilde considers how we can begin 
to articulate ourselves when the boundary between self and other is 
unclear. Drawing on fieldnotes of her own gameplay experiences, the 
author analyses how subjectivity is formed in ways that defy a single 
individual notion of “self”, and explores how different practices, 
feelings, and societal understandings can disrupt strict binaries and 
emphasise our posthumanism. She interrogates if one can speak of an “I” 
in the face of posthuman multiplicity, before exploring different 
analytical themes, beginning with how acting theories might be 
posthumanised and articulate the relationship between avatar and gamer. 
She then defines posthuman empathy and explains how this is experienced 
in gaming, before addressing the need to account for boredom, the 
complexity of nostalgia, and ways death and loss are experienced through 
gaming.

This volume will appeal to a broad audience and is particularly relevant 
to scholars and students of cultural studies, media studies, humanities, 
and game studies."

The book is available for purchase here: 
https://www.routledge.com/Posthuman-Gaming-Avatars-Gamers-and-Entangled-Subjectivities/Wilde/p/book/9781032055039 
<https://www.routledge.com/Posthuman-Gaming-Avatars-Gamers-and-Entangled-Subjectivities/Wilde/p/book/9781032055039>

Review copies can also be requested here: 
https://m.email.taylorandfrancis.com/review-copy-request-form 
<https://m.email.taylorandfrancis.com/review-copy-request-form>


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