Cultural Politics of Games
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Retracing Political Dimensions: Strategies in Contemporary New Media Art. Hrsg. / Oliver Grau; Inge Hinterwaldner. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2021. S. 78-86.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Cultural Politics of Games
AU - Fuchs, Mathias
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Walter De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article describes how computer games draw from and produce cultural practices that inform politics. The repetitiveness of playing games and experiencing intensive affective states make games the perfect vehicle for the generation of emotion and meaning. Games can 'attune'1 us to gestures, body postures, movements, phrases, visual patterns, and soundscapes. These assets-as game designers would call them-can be perceived and identified as belonging to certain 'pathos formulae'2 or 'emotionally charged visual trope[s].'3 Playing games elicits emotional responses that are triggered by these tropes and that grow with repetition. They are gateways into the social and material world4 and produce collective politics and social alliances.
AB - This article describes how computer games draw from and produce cultural practices that inform politics. The repetitiveness of playing games and experiencing intensive affective states make games the perfect vehicle for the generation of emotion and meaning. Games can 'attune'1 us to gestures, body postures, movements, phrases, visual patterns, and soundscapes. These assets-as game designers would call them-can be perceived and identified as belonging to certain 'pathos formulae'2 or 'emotionally charged visual trope[s].'3 Playing games elicits emotional responses that are triggered by these tropes and that grow with repetition. They are gateways into the social and material world4 and produce collective politics and social alliances.
KW - Media and communication studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107890067&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/9783110670981-005
DO - 10.1515/9783110670981-005
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783110670943
SP - 78
EP - 86
BT - Retracing Political Dimensions
A2 - Grau, Oliver
A2 - Hinterwaldner, Inge
PB - De Gruyter Saur
CY - Berlin, Boston
ER -