Unit Operations

Author: Ian Bogost
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B002QXMGM4
Category: Game Programming

Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism

In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary
theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular
videogames. Download Unit Operations game programming books for free. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any
medium--from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art--can be read as a configurative system
of discrete, interlocking units of meaning, and he illustrates this method of analysis with examples
from all these fields. The marriage of literary theory and information technology, he argues, will
help humanists take technology more seriously and hep technologists better understand software and
videogames as cultural artifacts. Th

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Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any
medium--from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art--can be read as a configurative system
of discrete, interlocking units of meaning, and he illustrates this method of analysis with examples
from all these fields Th

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