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A critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artifacts--whether videogames, literature, or film--as configurative systems of interlocking units of meaning.

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A bold new metaphysics that explores how all thingsfrom atoms to green chiles, cotton to computersinteract with, perceive, and experience one another

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An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.

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How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age

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A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation

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Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that game critique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

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The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices