Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the
chronotope, which literally means “timespace,” is an effective
interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and
ideological significance of video games. Using ‘slow readings’
attuned to deconstruction along the lines of post-structuralist
theory, gender studies, queer studies, continental philosophy, and
critical theory, Mike Piero exposes the often-overlooked misogyny,
heteronormativity, racism, and patriarchal structures present in many
Triple-A video games through their arrangement of timespace itself.
Beyond understanding time and space as separate mechanics and
dimensions, Piero reunites time and space through the analysis of six
chronotopes—of the bonfire, the abject, the archipelago, the fart
as pharmakon, madness, and coupled love—toward a poetic meaning
making that is at the heart of play itself, all in affirmation of
life, equity, and justice.
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Playing on the Threshold
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ISBN
9783030919443
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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