THE WORLD'S VIDEO GAME: A USER'S GUIDE

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Stefano Gualeni

The World’s Video Game explores how play, like every technology of fiction, shapes the human mind and directs the course of our desires. Virtual worlds are not ethereal spaces of mere entertainment, but living and dynamic realities, capable of transforming our perception, our sensibilities, and our social lives. Drawing on existentialism, design, and semiotics, the author’s research shows that the boundary between face and mask, between the virtual and the real, is far more porous than we would like to believe.

The new humanism, philosopher and video game designer Stefano Gualeni suggests, must emerge from this awareness: that our ideas, values, and identifications circulate and take shape within digital worlds. In an age when “philosophy migrates from words to pixels,” learning how to play, and how to think about what we play, becomes the great task of our time.

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