[Reader-list] Fwd: GAMES OF EMPIRE: Global Capitalism and Video Games

[Iram Ghufran]

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> *Analyzes video games and their links with capitalism, militarism, and 
> social control*
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> GAMES OF EMPIRE: Global Capitalism and Video Games
> By Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter
> University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2009
> ISBN 978-0-8166-6610-2 | hardcover | $60.00
> ISBN 978-0-8166-6611-9| paperback | $19.95
> Electronic Mediations, volume 29
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> /Games of Empire/ offers a radical political critique of such video 
> games and virtual environments as/ Second Life/,/ World of Warcraft/, 
> and/ Grand Theft Auto/. Rejecting both moral panic and glib 
> enthusiasm, Games of Empire demonstrates how virtual games crystallize 
> the cultural, political, and economic forces of global capital, while 
> also providing a means of resisting them.
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> "/Games of Empire/ is not only an extraordinarily wide-ranging, rich, 
> empirically grounded, and theoretically-savvy contribution to the 
> field of game studies, but also an instance of that playful genius of 
> immaterial labor that the book crucially investigates. The book is a 
> must-read for all students and scholars of gaming cultures, and an 
> eye-opener to the crucial importance of gaming to the broader level of 
> societal power for everybody else." -Tiziana Terranova, author of/ 
> Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age/
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> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/dyer-witheford_games.html
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