The PlayStation Dreamworld (Theory Redux)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1509518037 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Alfie Bown does this at such a high level that he produces an instant classic, a book that everyone who seeks to find a way in our confused social life will have to read. The Playstation Dreamworld is unputdownable, once you start reading it you will get addicted to itas in a good video game!"Slavoj ?i?ek"If you ever asked yourself what Freud and Lacan would think if they had a chance to play video games, Alfie Bown gives you the answer. This exciting psychoanalysis of video games shows why Pokémon Go and other games was only the beginning of a brave new world."Srecko Horvat, philosopher and author of The Radicality of Love
Alfie Bown is Assistant Professor of Literature at Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong.
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. We can no longer escape our fantasies but rather live inside their digital reality.. From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. 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. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj the pervert's guide to videogames. 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