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Articles about philosophy: December 5, 2008

Theory book on games:  Gamer Theory

by Joshua Mallory on Jun 14, 2007 at 06:08 PM

Gamer TheoryA book that treats video games as an art form worth studying is not a completely new idea but they are still relatively few and far between.  Cultural magazine Brooklyn Rail features an article this month reviewing one such book, Gamer Theory by McKenzie Wark.

Gamer Theory takes a philosophical approach to the art of games, describing how they have shaped the way we look at the world as well as what games themselves say about the world.  According to Wark…

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