Agency, Appropriation, Politics: Three Epistemological Keys Towards an Aesthetics of Play

• Authors: Ferreira Emmanoel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based on a dialogue with authors of pragmatist philosophy, game studies, and communication, this article intends to understand the relationship between aesthetic experience and ludic media, in particular digital games, in what this relationship distinguishes from the aesthetic experiences provided by different media, such as literature, music, film and the arts in general. To better understand this relationship, we propose the presentation and development of three epistemological axes (or keys), namely: i) aesthetics and agency, ii) aesthetics and appropriation, and iii) aesthetics and politics. Furthermore, this article intends to present and comment on selected works of digital games to illustrate the relationship between play and aesthetic experience in each of those respective axes.

Keywords

EN

aesthetics; agency; appropriation; digital games; epistemology; play; politics

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Acta Ludologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 62-78
• Physical description: Media and Communication, Game studies, Theory of digital games
• Document type: Article

Contributors

author

Ferreira Emmanoel