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Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
by Ian Bogost
from The MIT Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Criticism and Computation
  Bogost's begins with a promising venture into the video game territory. This time we are promised that video games are distinguished from books and films, and that the "ludology" of video games is recognized as an independent field. Bogost uses philosophy in order to accomplish this mission. Although when it comes to critical arguments, Bogost's approach is mainly Badiousian, he sets forth a rich array of classical and contemporary philosophies, from Plato to Spinoza, Deleuze, and Harman. I have this... more info

• I've Become... Smarter
  A bulging boutique of bottom-up beats bearing from baroque battles to bogus babalities.

• Criticism Reloaded
  Unit Operations is every bit as brilliant - and damn fun a read - as those of us lucky enough to've had early glimpses at Bogost's project had hoped.
  It's tempting to write a review of this book in the form of a treatment for a mega-million-dollar console game, and that temptation seems to me no accident: this book will change the way you pay attention to ALL, in both senses of the word, coded systems you yourself use.
  The backstory of the book's authoring is itself almost too Hollywood (or new... more info

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