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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Games in the Age of Empire
Part I. Game Engine: Labor, Capital, Machine
1. Immaterial Labor: A Workers' History of Videogaming
2. Cognitive Capitalism: Electronic Arts
3. Machinic Subjects: The Xbox and Its Rivals
Part II. Gameplay: Virtual/Actual
4. Banal War: Full Spectrum Warrior
5. Biopower Play: World of Warcraft
6. Imperial City: Grand Theft Auto
Part III. New Game?
7. Games of Multitude
8. Exodus: The Metaverse and the Mines
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Games of Empire

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    A Paperback / softback by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 08/12/2009
      ISBN13: 9780816666119, 978-0816666119
      ISBN10: 0816666113

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Games in the Age of Empire
      Part I. Game Engine: Labor, Capital, Machine
      1. Immaterial Labor: A Workers' History of Videogaming
      2. Cognitive Capitalism: Electronic Arts
      3. Machinic Subjects: The Xbox and Its Rivals
      Part II. Gameplay: Virtual/Actual
      4. Banal War: Full Spectrum Warrior
      5. Biopower Play: World of Warcraft
      6. Imperial City: Grand Theft Auto
      Part III. New Game?
      7. Games of Multitude
      8. Exodus: The Metaverse and the Mines
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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