Games and Utopia

• Authors: Kłosiński Michał

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Games and Utopia

Abstracts

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The main theme of my article is the relationship between virtual worlds of video games and the concept of utopia. I aim to present a wide variety of different definitions and theories of utopia, which seem indispensable in order to further the relationship between video game and virtual reality research and the multitude of utopian studies discourses. The thesis starts with a short recollection of Alexander Galloway’s thesis on video games and utopias from his article on World of Warcraft which I am trying to supplement with some of the most interesting contemporary utopian studies research. The core of the article focuses on sketching an alternative proposal which includes a variety of definitions of utopia and utopianism. My aim is to introduce precise and useful notions which could be further utilized in game analysis and game research.

Keywords

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digital games; game studies; magic circle; utopia; utopian studies; utopianism; video games

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Acta Ludologica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 4-14
• Physical description: Media and Communication, Game studies, Theory of digital games
• Document type: Article

Contributors

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Kłosiński Michał

• University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Philology