عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
794 .8 B787P 2018 23
794
.
8
B787P
2018
23
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
9781509518036 (paperback)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
406248
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The PlayStation dreamworld
General Material Designation
[book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Alfie Bown.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, UK
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Polity Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
، 2018
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
، 2018
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 143 pages
SERIES
Series Title
Theory redux
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text of Note
0
Text of Note
Alfie Bown
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Machine generated contents note: Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Games Tutorial: The Pokemon Generation Level 1. From Farming Simulation to Dystopic Wasteland: Gaming and Capitalism Work and Play - Cultures of Distraction - Pastoral Dystopia, Apocalyptic Utopia - No Alternative Level 2. Dreamwork: Cyborgs on the Analyst's Couch Japanese Dreams, American Texts - The Dreamworld - Repetitions and the Dromena - Immersion and Westworld Level 3. Retro Gaming: The Politics of Former and Future Pleasures 90s Rational Gaming - Virtual/Reality - Subject, Object, Enjoyment - Jouissance in the Arcades Bonus Features: How to be a Subversive Gamer Game Index Endnotes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is--to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek--the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces. While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization, gaming, at its most subversive, can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created and endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones, videogames, computers and other forms of technological entertainment. Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers, this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Entry Element
Video games
Entry Element
Virtual reality
Entry Element
Dream interpretation
Entry Element
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Topical Subdivision
-- Social aspects
Topical Subdivision
-- Social aspects
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
794
.
8
B787P
2018
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
GV1469
.
34
.
S52
B75
2018
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Entry Element
Bown, Alfie
Relator Code
author
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
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GV1469.34.S52 B75 2018
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