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Playing at a Distance
An essential exploration of the video game aesthetic that decenters the human player—requiring little human action—and challenges what it means to play. Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum theory? In Playing at a Distance, Sonia Fizek engages with these and many more daunting questions, forging new ways to think and talk about games and play that decenter the human player and explore a variety of play formats and practices that require surprisingly little human action. Idling in clicker games, wandering in walking simulators, automating gameplay with bots, or simply watc...
Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games
Gaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes itself on us and influences how we feel about it, the world, and ourselves. How do games accomplish this and to what end? The contributors explore the video game as an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally through even the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and 2020 to provide answers to these questions.
Playing Utopia
Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why? This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.
Paratextualizing Games
Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced – i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games – as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text?
Mittelalter und Populärkultur
An keiner anderen historischen Epoche scheint die gegenwärtige Populärkultur so interessiert wie am Mittelalter. In Fantasyromanen, Filmen, Serien, Spielen und Musik wird ein Mittelalter inszeniert, das nicht historisch oder wissenschaftlich akkurat, sondern populär sein möchte. Das schafft Raum für ästhetische und politische Transformationen in der Aneignung mittelalterlicher Stoffe und Motive. Beispiele dafür sind u.a. die Artus- und Gralsmythen oder die Wikinger. Die Beiträger*innen analysieren unter dem Leitbegriff des »Neomediävalen« (Umberto Eco) Anspruch und Funktion der aktuellen populären Mittelalterrezeption - medienübergreifend und unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Formen der Ausgestaltung.
Todesarten
Der Tod ist die einzige Gewissheit des Lebens. Das Bewusstsein von der eigenen Sterblichkeit ist eine Grundbedingung des Menschseins und hat über Jahrhunderte Religionen und Philosophen zu Deutungsversuchen herausgefordert. Die Möglichkeit der menschengemachten Auslöschung des Erdenlebens vor Augen, widmet sich der vorliegende Band verschiedenen Formen, mit der eigenen Zeitlichkeit umzugehen: vom Pomp der Leichenzüge im antiken Rom und der ars moriendi des Mittelalters zu Pariser Revolutionsfriedhöfen, der Erinnerung an Hiroshima und an die Unerträglichkeit des Holocaust, vom Heldentod im Krieg über Filmtote und Sterbepraktiken im Kulturvergleich zum unendlichen Ende im Computerspiel und der Hoffnung auf Unsterblichkeit im Cyberspace. Der vorliegende Band lädt zu einer interdisziplinären Tour d'Horizon zum vielgestaltigen Umgang mit dem Tod ein und stellt Forschungsergebnisse aus den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, aus Theologie, Philosophie und Geschichte sowie aus der Kunst-, Musik- und Medienwissenschaft in einem weiten Spektrum von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vor.
A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests
For the practicing neuropsychologist or researcher, keeping up with the sheer number of newly published or updated tests is a challenge, as is evaluating the utility and psychometric properties of neuropsychological tests in a clinical context. The goal of the third edition of A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests, a well-established neuropsychology reference text, is twofold. First, the Compendium is intended to serve as a guidebook that provides a comprehensive overview of the essential aspects of neuropsychological assessment practice. Second, it is intended as a comprehensive sourcebook of critical reviews of major neuropsychological assessment tools for the use by practicing clinicia...
