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Claus Pias: Computer Game Worlds
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Claus Pias

Computer Game Worlds

Übersetzt von Valentine A. Pakis

Broschur, 352 Seiten

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Why do computer games exist?

Computer games dominate millions of private computer screens. For half a century they have no longer been the exclusive business of laboratories, military advisors and subcultures. Nevertheless, no one has ever posed the most obvious of all questions: why do computer games exist? Computer games (as we know them) came unasked for and cannot be taken for granted, if only for this one simple reason. But what peculiar date and place brought such completely heterogeneous appliances, bodies and symbolisms together to form (long-prepared and yet sudden) this totally new kind of game? What type of knowledge is it that cuts across technologies, institutions and machines striving to shape today’s games? Pias’s archaeology of the computer game is not solely a survey of the numerous objects, apparatus and ensembles which have been crafted, constructed and installed only to reappear one day as commercial products. It is, simultaneously and exceedingly, also an epistemical reconstruction of game playing at and with computers and by computers themselves, an archaeology of the computer game which no longer relies on the individual’s freedom from »his« or »her« game. It is the economies of time, decision and regulation, embodied in hard- and software, that form the materiality of the games in which information societies think their own game.

Inhalt

  • 7–13

    Introduction

  • 15–18

    1. Kairos

  • 18–22

    2. Experimental Psychology

  • 22–31

    3. Army Mental Tests

  • 32–59

    4. Ergonomics

  • 59–71

    5. Calculating Motion

  • 72–93

    6. Visibility and Commensurability

  • 94–109

    7. A New Ergonomics

  • 110–123

    8. Computer Games

  • 125–131

    9. Caves

  • 131–150

    10. The Construction of the Artificial World

  • 150–164

    11. Narratives

  • 165–199

    12. Programs, Labyrinths, Graphs

  • 201–208

    13. "That Naïve Concept of Utility"

  • 208–214

    14. Chess and Computers

  • 214–240

    15. Tactical Chess and War Games

  • 240–257

    16. Operations Research and the Weather

  • 257–284

    17. The 1950s

  • 284–313

    18. The 1960s

  • 313–324

    19. The 1970s

  • 325–326

    Afterword

  • 327–347

    Works Cited

  • 349–355

    Index

  • Medienwissenschaft
  • Computerspiele
  • Digitale Medien
  • Spieltheorie
  • Computer
  • Game Studies

“A brilliant, wide-ranging and provocative analysis of the centrality of game worlds to modern computing: from Taylorism to the analytic challenges posed by the Vietnam War, from serial story telling to Pong. Finally—an English translation of the works of one of the most important German media theorists. This book is sure to change new media theory in the English-speaking world, as it has in Germany.” Wendy Chun, Brown University

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Claus Pias

ist Professor für Mediengeschichte und Medientheorie an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Zuvor lehrte er in Weimar, Bochum, Essen und Wien. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Technikgeschichte und Medientheorie.

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