Adventures of a digital wanderer. Game studies interpretations

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5 April 2023

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Synopsis

The monograph presents an original hermeneutic approach to digital game interpretation. The book consists of digital game case studies which focus on different aspects of their philosophical problematic: from management of life, through question concerning their ontology, to the way they produce livable spaces and mythological stories about our contemporaneity. The author also provides a ten-step manual to game interpretation aimed at helping students and researchers alike to analyze digital games. The book features interpretations of such award-winning titles as Horizon: Zero Dawn, Cyberpunk 2077, Frostpunk and Disco Elysium.

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Author Biography

Michał Kłosiński, University of Silesia in Katowice

An active member of Utopian Studies Society and The Society for Utopian Studies. During his doctoral studies he participated in the Paris Program in Critical Theory. He published various articles on Polish literature, literary theory and video games in: "Game Studies", „International Journal of Baudrillard Studies”, „Pamiętnik Literacki”, “Teksty Drugie”, „Wielogłos”, „Śwat i Słowo”. He is the author of: Świat pęknięty. O poemach naiwnych Czesława Miłosza [Broken World. On „World. Naive poem” by Czeslav Milosz] (Warsaw 2013), Ratunkiem jest tylko poezja Baudrillard – Teoria – Literatura [Only poetry can save us. Baudrillard – Theory – Literature] (Warsaw 2015) and Hermeneutyka gier wideo. Interpretacja immersja, utopia [Hermeneutics of video games. Interpretation, immersion, utopia] (Warsaw 2018). He also co-edited (With Ksenia Olkusz and Krzysztof M. Maj) More After More. Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia (Krakow 2016), Ekonomiczne teorie literatury (with Paweł Tomczok) [Economic theories of literature] (Katowice 2016) and Dyskursy gier wideo (with Krzysztof M. Maj) [Discourses of video games] (Krakow 2019). His current hermeneutical and post-phenomenological research can be placed at the intersection of literary theory, game studies and utopian studies. [5.02.2023]

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