{"product_id":"gamer-theory-wark-9780674025196","title":"Gamer Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eListen to a short interview with McKenzie WarkHost: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron \u0026amp; Crane \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEver get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play yet cannot win? Welcome to gamespace. Gamespace is where and how we live today. It is everywhere and nowhere: the main chance, the best shot, the big leagues, the only game in town. In a world thus configured, McKenzie Wark contends, digital computer games are the emergent cultural form of the times. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark approaches them as a utopian version of the world in which we actually live. Playing against the machine on a game console, we enjoy the only truly level playing field--where we get ahead on our strengths or not at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society. The book depicts a world becoming an inescapable series of less and less perfect games. This world gives rise to a new persona. In place of the subject or citizen stands the gamer. As all previous such personae had their breviaries and manuals, \u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to offer guidance for thinking within this new character. Neither a strategy guide nor a cheat sheet for improving one's score or skills, the book is instead a primer in thinking about a world made over as a gamespace, recast as an imperfect copy of the game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e McKenzie Wark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674025199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674025196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.04w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2007 pg. 104","brand":"McKenzie Wark","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43920454877439,"sku":"9780674025196","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_64a72b66-c620-4194-9cfa-02a0b179127b.jpg?v=1680815458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gamer-theory-wark-9780674025196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}