The World Is Born From Zero

Understanding Speculation and Video Games

von Cameron Kunzelman

198 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Video Games and the Humanities
• ISBN: 9783111282169
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2023
• Genre: Geschichte
• Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg