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The PlayStation Dreamworld

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The PlayStation Dreamworld

By Alfie Bown

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About the book

From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is - to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek - the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace - a powerful arena for constructing our desires - or else the dreamworld will fall entirely into the hands of dominant and reactionary forces. While cybe...Show more

Sociology and anthropology

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9781509518036

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2017

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The PlayStation Dreamworld

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