Work

Dionysiac Machines

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: / This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulational nature of computer media and videogames. Through a reading of Deleuze's essay Platonism and the Simulacrum, taking the GameBoy Advance game Advance Wars 2 as a case study, and proposing the significance of automata, it suggests ways of thinking about the artificial and simulacral character of contemporary technoculture and its devices, not as the implosion of reality, but of its production.

Source: Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

DOI: 10.1177/1354856507082204

Author: Seth Giddings

Institution: University of the West of England

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Studies and Postmodernism

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2109623784

FWCI: 5.049

Cites: 23

Cited by: 22

Related to: 10