Video Game Ecologies and Culture
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Edited by:
Nathalie Aghoro
About this book
Video Game Ecologies and Culture examines the environments that video games affect and are impacted by. The edited collection engages with the notion of ecology as a critical concept that allows to study video game conceptions of human, posthuman, and natural environments and explore the entangled eco-cultural formations in video games and gaming. The contributions discuss the theme of video game ecologies with an interdisciplinary emphasis on the cultural, political, social, and ecological discourses pertaining to the medium and reflect on the relations and imaginaries developed through eco/critical video game practices. These interrelations are carved out in essays on relationality, kinship, and capitalist ruins, immersion in virtual marine ecosystems, video games and the commodification of ecocriticism, eco-colonial power formations, playing and recording nature, gender and post-anthropocentric game worlds, time-loop chronotopes, and ludoaffective dissonance and survival in video games.
Author / Editor information
Nathalie Aghoro, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Video Game Ecologies and Culture: An Introduction
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Gaming Past the Anthropocene: Relationality, Kinship, and Capitalist Ruins in Song of Bloom, Never Alone, and World of Goo
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A Contract with a Leviathan: Abyssal Ecologies in Subnautica
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Subnautica, Flow, and the Shackles of Convention
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Fractured Worlds in Video Games: The Coloniality of Power in Narrative Tropes and Game Mechanics
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Recording Nature in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure and Season: A Letter to the Future
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On (In)Fertile Ground: Postapocalypse and the Maternal in The Last of Us Part II, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Horizon Forbidden West
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Disruptive Imaginations: Chronotopic Time Loops and Environmental Agency in Sky: Children of the Light
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Feeling Nature: Ludoaffective Dissonance and Harmony in Survival Video Games
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Postscript: Playing at the End of a World
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List of Contributors
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Index
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