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The PlayStation Dreamworld 1st Edition by Alfie Bown 1509518037 9781509518036

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Author(s): Alfie Bown
ISBN(s): 9781509518036, 1509518037
Edition: Paperback
File Details: PDF, 1.41 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
SKU: EB-7380906 Category: Tag:

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ISBN 10: 1509518037 

ISBN 13: 9781509518036

Author: Alfie Bown

From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert’s guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces.

While cyberspace is increasingly dominated by corporate organization, gaming, at its most subversive, can nevertheless produce radical forms of enjoyment which threaten the capitalist norms that are created and endlessly repeated in our daily relationships with mobile phones, videogames, computers and other forms of technological entertainment. Far from being a book solely for dedicated gamers, this book dissects the structure of our relationships to all technological entertainment at a time when entertainment has become ubiquitous. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality.

Table of contents:

  • Level 1 From Farming Simulation to Dystopic Wasteland: Gaming and Capitalism
    Work and Play
    Cultures of Distraction
    Pastoral Dystopia, Apocalyptic Utopia
    No Alternative
    Credits

  • Level 2 Dreamwork: Cyborgs on the Analyst’s Couch
    Japanese Dreams, American Texts
    The Dreamworld
    Repetitions and the Dromena
    Immersion and Westworld
    Credits

  • Level 3 Retro Gaming: The Politics of Former and Future Pleasures
    Rational Gaming in the 1990s
    Virtual/Reality
    Subject, Object, Enjoyment
    Jouissance in the Arcades
    Credits

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