Paolo Ruffino on Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:47:09 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime-ann> [ann] Book announcement Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture |
. Dear list members, I am happy to announce my new monograph ‘Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture’. The book offers an 'intuitive, timely, performative, ethical, anti-authoritarian, and anxious' reading of some of the most recent events of video game culture, and imagines new times and timings for a creative study of digital games. Ultimately, the book poses the question of (paraphrasing Austin) how to do things with Microsoft Word: how to intervene in video game culture by writing about it. The book is available from March 23rd. - Chapters outline Introduction: Creative Game Studies 1) Life After Gamification: How I Broke Up with Nike+ FuelBand 2) Independent Gaming: Take Care of Your Own Video Game 3) They Leak! Hacking PlayStation (as a) Network 4) A History of Boxes: Game Archaeology and the Burial of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 5) GamerGate: Becoming Parasites to Gaming Conclusion: At the Time of Writing - Book info Goldsmiths Press https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/future-gaming/ MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-gaming Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Gaming-Creative-Interventions-Culture/dp/1906897557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521067608&sr=8-1&keywords=future+gaming - Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the medium. This book is about those predictions. It is about the ways in which the past, present, and future notions of games are narrated and negotiated by a small group of producers, journalists, and gamers, and about how invested these narrators are in telling the story of tomorrow. This new title from Goldsmiths Press by Paolo Ruffino suggests the story could be told another way. Considering game culture, from the gamification of self-improvement to GamerGate’s sexism and violence, Ruffino lays out an alternative, creative mode of thinking about the medium: a sophisticated critical take that blurs the distinctions among studying, playing, making, and living with video games. Offering a series of stories that provide alternative narratives of digital gaming, Ruffino aims to encourage all of us who study and play (with) games to raise ethical questions, both about our own role in shaping the objects of research, and about our involvement in the discourses we produce as gamers and scholars. For researchers and students seeking a fresh approach to game studies, and for anyone with an interest in breaking open the current locked-box discourse, Future Gaming offers a radical lens with which to view the future. - Book endorsements “Ruffino’s provocative work poses a challenge to conventional academic study of video games. He proposes a Creative Game Studies as a more transparently subjective approach to the productive process of games research and games studies appropriate to this moment of significant change and evolution within the industry and the academy. This volume demonstrates the value of this approach in examining both the uniquely personal daily gamified encounters of living with Nike+FuelBand all the way through to the very public ‘gamer’ identity crisis of the GamerGate phenomenon.” Helen Kennedy, University of Brighton “Through its demonstration of an alert and lively creative engagement with games, Future Gaming presents a fabulatory curative to preservative narratives, generating delicious inspiration for makers and game scholars alike.” Tanya Krzywinska, Falmouth University “Ruffino offers an incisive look at recent video game history, and reveals the flaws in many of the concepts we have long taken for granted.” Jesper Juul, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design -- Dr. Paolo Ruffino http://paoloruffino.com _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann