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1. Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds. Multiuser Textuality and the Emergence of Story

   Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds. Multiuser Textuality and the Emergence of Story

   Scott Rettberg - 26.06.2013 - 11:26

2. Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation

   Currently in game and digital culture studies, a controversy rages over the relevance of narratology for game aesthetics. One side argues that computer games are media for telling stories, while the opposing side claims that stories and games are different structures that are in effect doing opposite things. One crucial aspect of this debate is whether games can be said to be "texts," and thereby subject to a textual-hermeneutic approach. Here we find the political question of genre at play: the fight over the games' generic categorization is a fight for academic influence over what is perhaps the dominant contemporary form of cultural expression. After forty years of fairly quiet evolution, the cultural genre of computer games is finally recognized as a large-scale social and aesthetic phenomenon to be taken seriously. In the last few years, games have gone from media non grata to a recognized field of great scholarly potential, a place for academic expansion and recognition.

   Scott Rettberg - 09.07.2013 - 00:24

3. Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary entertainment

   The artists of the seventeenth-century baroque period used spectacle to delight and astonish; contemporary entertainment media, according to Angela Ndalianis, are imbued with a neo-baroque aesthetic that is similarly spectacular. In Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment, she situates today's film, computer games, comic books, and theme-park attractions within an aesthetic-historical context and uses the baroque as a framework to enrich our understanding of contemporary entertainment media.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 17:20