Outputs (48)

Technologies between games and culture (2009)
Journal Article

This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relat... Read More about Technologies between games and culture.

Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, vol 4., no. 2 (April 2009), Special Section on games and technology (2009)
Other

This special section, co-edited by Patrick Crogan and Helen Kennedy, comprised the majority of this issue of Games and Culture and was derived from a UWE Play Research Group one day symposium held in September 2006.

The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister (2009)
Journal Article

The Ister (Ross and Barison, 2003)—part documentary, travelogue and philosophical meditation supplementing Heidegger’s meditation on Holderlin’s poem about the Danube—opens and closes with sequences of a duck waddling along the bank of the river. The... Read More about The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.

Wargaming and computer games: Fun with the future (2008)
Book Chapter

An essay exploring the historical influence of wargaming on contemporary computer gaming and the philosophical implications of this.

Acting Out (2008)
Book

The book translates two essays by Bernard Stiegler concerning his pathway to studying philosophy, his interest in an engaged philosophical practice relevant to the contemporary world, and his analysis of significant social and cultural problems relat... Read More about Acting Out.

A conversation on the efficacies of the game engine to address notions of sacred space: The digital songlines project and transgressions of sacredness (2008)
Book Chapter

A conference paper exploring issues arising from the experimental use of a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.

Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series (2007)
Journal Article

In Volumes 2 and 3 of his Technics and Time series, Bernard Stiegler advances a complex series of arguments concerning the relationship between philosophy and film, and thinking and film more generally. This is done in the context, and fulfillment, o... Read More about Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series.

Logistical space: Flight simulation and virtual reality (2007)
Book Chapter

This paper looks at the history of flight simulation technology as a key instance of the logistics of vision (Virilio) bringing about a preemptive reanimation of the world first developed in military training context, and disseminated by its contribu... Read More about Logistical space: Flight simulation and virtual reality.