Title:
The interface envelope : gaming, technology, power / James Ash.
Main Entry:
Ash, James, 1983-
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.,
Publication Date:
2015.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9781623564599 (hbk.)
Subject:
Video games -- Psychological aspects.
Video games -- Design
User interfaces (Computer systems)
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 Attention, Economy, Power 1.2 Post-Phenomenology and New Materialism 1.3 Media, Software and Game Studies 1.4 Chapter outlines 2. Interface 2.1 Interface theory 2.3 Interfaces as Environments 2.4 Interface, Object, Transduction 3. Resolution 3.1 Resolution 3.2 Neuropower 3.3 High and low Resolution 3.4 Phasing between resolutions 3.5 Resolution, Habit, Power 4. Technicity 4.1 Technicity 4.2 Psychopower 4.3 Homogenization 4.4 Irreversibility 4.5 Technicity, Time, Power 5. Envelopes 5.1 Homeomorphic Modulation 5.2 Envelope Power 5.3 Shifting Logics of the Envelope in Games Design 5.4 The Contingency of Envelopes 6. Ecotechnics 6.1 The Ecotechnics of Care 6.2 Ecotechnics of Care: two sites of transduction 6.3 From suspended to immanent ecotechnical systems of care 6.4 The Temporal Deferral of Negative Affect 7. Envelope Life 7.1 Gamification 7.2 Non-gaming interface envelopes 7.3 Questioning Envelope Life 7.4 Pharmacology 8. Conclusions 8.1 Games / Digital Interfaces 8.2 Objects / New materialism / Envelopes 8.3 Power / Economy / Capitalism Bibliography Index.
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