Games: Agency As Art,9780190052096

Games: Agency As Art

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ISBN13: 9780190052096
ISBN10: 0190052090
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2020-03-24
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press Academic US
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Author Biography


C. Thi Nguyen as of July 2020 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on how social structures and technology can shape our rationality and our agency. He has published on trust, expertise, group agency, community art, cultural appropriation, aesthetic value, echo chambers, moral outrage porn, and games. He received his PhD from UCLA. Once, he was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. He tweets at @add_hawk.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1: Agency as art

PART I: GAMES AND AGENCY
Chapter 2: The possibility of striving play
Chapter 3: Layers of agency
Chapter 4: Games and autonomy

PART II: AGENCY AND ART
Chapter 5: The aesthetics of agency
Chapter 6: Framed agency
Chapter 7: The distance in the game

PART III: SOCIAL AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Chapter 8: Games as social transformation
Chapter 9: Gamification and value capture
Chapter 10: The value of striving

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