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Respawn
Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
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Colin Milburn
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Colin Milburn examines the relationships between video games, hackers, and science fiction, showing how games provide models of social and political engagement, critique, and resistance while offering a vital space for players and hacktivists to challenge centralized power and experiment with alternative futures.
Author / Editor information
Colin Milburn is Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities and Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter and Nanovision: Engineering the Future, both also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"This is a detailed and precise account, with a clear narrative that identifies the course of the elements used and their evolving style and context. But among the many intertwined stories, the clever quotes and the endless virtual environments, what keeps emerging is a strong value of responsibility, taking sensible decisions, showing a proper understanding of what Milburn calls as 'technogenic life.'"
-- Aurelio Cianciotta Neural
"This is an accessible work that might give ardent gamers newfound appreciation of the social sciences, and it does an excellent job of neither raising up nor tearing down the historical processes it documents. . . . Recommended. All readers."
-- P. L. Kantor Choice
"Respawn offers a detailed analysis of the entanglements of broader game cultures, political activism and the sociotechnical dilemmas of our present. Drawing on a plethora of game examples and their histories, online discussion threads and occasionally humorous imagery, the book is an engaging account for everyone working at the intersections of digital media theory, game studies, political theory and science and technology studies."
-- Yana Boeva LSE Review of Books
"This author is a worthy bard, and the stories he tells are hella helpful for making sense of the somewhat ephemeral moments of resistance that emerge within, alongside, and out of gaming culture. Using schlxr skillz like research and archives, he weaves together tales of gamer resistance with careful attention to detail, but not without a few lulz, some lite L337speak, and some deep philosophical reflection on what it means to pwn."
-- H-Cat Slingshot
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 14, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781478090366
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
308
Other:
88 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9781478090366
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 3.0
