Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine / James Malazita.
2024
QA76.76.V54 M35 2024
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Title
Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine / James Malazita.
Author
Malazita, James, author.
ISBN
9780262379076 electronic book
0262379074 electronic book
9780262379069 electronic book
0262379066 electronic book
9780262548243 paperback
0262379074 electronic book
9780262379069 electronic book
0262379066 electronic book
9780262548243 paperback
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations.
Call Number
QA76.76.V54 M35 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
794.8/1513
Summary
"A new Platform Studies book developing "critical platform studies" to analyze the Unreal Engine"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2024).
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Series
Platform studies.
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Enacting platforms
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Seeing like a soldier : the co-production of engine and state through America's Army
Arc I: Queering orientation and agency
Orienting Z : interfaces and coordinate space as unreal's bodily proxies
Elizabeth and threads of Kismet : agency as queer and affective entanglement in BioShock Infinite
Arc II: White photorealism
Epistemic prestige in Unreal's physically based rendering
The raced histories of MetaHuman creator's skin, shine, and melanin
Conclusion : resource materialities, Fortnite, and the Metaverse.
Seeing like a soldier : the co-production of engine and state through America's Army
Arc I: Queering orientation and agency
Orienting Z : interfaces and coordinate space as unreal's bodily proxies
Elizabeth and threads of Kismet : agency as queer and affective entanglement in BioShock Infinite
Arc II: White photorealism
Epistemic prestige in Unreal's physically based rendering
The raced histories of MetaHuman creator's skin, shine, and melanin
Conclusion : resource materialities, Fortnite, and the Metaverse.