The World Is Born From Zero
eBook - PDF

The World Is Born From Zero

Understanding Speculation and Video Games

  1. 206 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The World Is Born From Zero

Understanding Speculation and Video Games

About this book

The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of possible futures by following video game studies, media philosophy, and science fiction studies to their furthest reaches. Claiming that the best way to understand games is through rigorous formal analysis of their aesthetic strategies and the cultural context those strategies emerge from, Kunzelman investigates a diverse array of games like The Last of Us, VA-11 Hall-A, and Civilization VI in order to explore what science fiction video games can tell us about their genres, their ways of speculating, and how the medium of the video game does (or does not) direct us down experiential pathways that are both oppressive and liberatory. Taking a multidisciplinary look at these games, The World is Born From Zero offers a unique theorization of science fiction games that provides both science fiction studies and video game studies with new tools for thinking how this medium and mode inform each other.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9783110719451
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
World History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1 A Method for Thinking Speculation, Science Fiction, and Video Games
  5. Chapter 2 Potential Labor: On VA-11 HALL-A
  6. Chapter 3 Anti-Blackness and the Aesthetic Grounding of Speculation: On the Last of Us and the Last of Us Part 2
  7. Chapter 4 The Politics of Design in Climate Change Games
  8. Conclusion
  9. Bibliography
  10. Media
  11. Index of Names
  12. Index of Subjects