Название: Online Gaming in Context ISBN: 0415714974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415714976 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores patterns of gameplay and sociality afforded by online gaming. Bringing together essays from leading and emerging academics, this book explores key issues in understanding online gaming, including: patterns of play, legality, production, identity, gamer communities, communication, social exclusion and inclusion, and considers future directions in online gaming.
Описание: In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience, author Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analyzing video games and the player experience philosophically. Finding points of departure in phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Boulter argues that we need to think seriously about what it means to enter into a relationship with the game machine and to assume (or to have conferred upon you) a machinic, posthuman identity. Parables of the Posthuman approaches the experience of gaming by asking: What does it mean for the player to enter the machinic “world” of the game? What forms of subjectivity does the game offer to the player? What happens to consciousness itself when one plays? To this end, Boulter analyzes the experience of particular role-playing video games, including Fallout 3, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Crysis 2, and Metal Gear Solid 4. These games both thematize the idea of the posthuman—the games are “about” subjects whose physical and intellectual capacities are extended through machine or other prosthetic means—and also enact an experience of the posthuman for the player, who becomes more than what he was as he plays the game. Boulter concludes by exploring how the game acts as a parable of what the human, or posthuman, may look like in times to come.Academics with an interest in the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and popular culture forms and video gamers with an interest in thinking about the implications of gaming will enjoy this volume.
Автор: Paranjape, Makarand R. (professor Of English, Centre For English Studies, School Of Language, Literature And Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Univers Название: Cultural politics in modern india ISBN: 113848833X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138488335 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: India’s global proximities derive in good measure from its struggle against British imperialism. In its efforts to become a nation, India turned modern in its own unusual way. At the heart of this metamorphosis was a "colourful cosmopolitanism," the unique manner in which India made the world its neighbourhood. The most creative thinkers and leaders of that period reimagined diverse horizons. They collaborated not only in widespread anti-colonial struggles but also in articulating the vision of alter-globalization, universalism, and cosmopolitanism. This book, in revealing this dimension, offers new and original interpretations of figures such as Kant, Tagore, Heidegger, Gandhi, Aurobindo, Gebser, Kosambi, Narayan, Ezekiel, and Spivak. It also analyses cultural and aesthetic phenomena, from the rasa theory to Bollywood cinema, explaining how Indian ideas, texts, and cultural expressions interacted with a wider world and contributed to the making of modern India.
Автор: Kirkpatrick Название: The Formation of Gaming Culture ISBN: 1137305096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137305091 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyses gaming magazines published in Britain in the 1980s to provide the first serious history of the bedroom coding culture that produced some of the most important video games ever played.
Автор: Batabyal Название: Making News in India ISBN: 0415501636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415501637 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry and on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, `shining` India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving interviews, observations and analysis, this book explores the milieu of 24-hour private news channels in India today.
Автор: Prasad G. J. V. Название: Writing India, Writing English: Literature, Language, Location ISBN: 1138663891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138663893 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The essays in this book lay emphasis on the interaction between English and other Indian languages, and how power relations add a degree of tension to this interaction. The book looks closely at how translation plays a major role in constructing an alternate nation and also focuses on Tamil to give a counterpoint.
Автор: Batabyal Somnath Название: Making News in India: Star News and Star Ananda ISBN: 1138662437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138662438 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry and on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, `shining` India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving interviews, observations and analysis, this book explores the milieu of 24-hour private news channels in India today.
Описание: This volume analyses the complex historical and political context for the processes of state formation in independent India. It provides both a conceptual and empirical framework for an understanding of Indian democracy through the perspective of reorganisation of states.
Описание: This book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading.
Описание: This book analyses the problem of `missing girls` as intimately linked to a process of change and development in India in which culture plays a significant role. This is a result of an institutional change of the family in which the relative importance of sons has increased.
Описание: This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people`s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith.
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