Gamer Theory / / McKenzie Wark.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Wark, McKenzie ,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; CONTENTS --; Agony (on The Cave) --; Allegory (on The Sims) --; America (on Civilization III) --; Analog (on Katamari Damacy) --; Atopia (on Vice City) --; Battle (on Rez) --; Boredom (on State of Emergency) --; Complex (on Deus Ex) --; Conclusions (on Sim Earth) --; Cuts (Endnotes) --; Directory (Index)
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674044838; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674044838
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: McKenzie Wark.

Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is. Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.