Narrative Mechanics. Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life | Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
What do stories in games have in common with political narratives?
This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society – such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design – of game mechanics.
Was haben Geschichten in Spielen mit politischen Erzählungen gemeinsam?
17 Autor:innen widmen sich dieser Frage und veranschaulichen, wie die in Spielen so klar identifizierbaren narrativen Mechanismen zunehmend in der Politik und im gesellschaftlichen Leben eingesetzt (und missbraucht) werden. Die Publikation versammelt Beiträge der jährlich stattfindenden Konferenz gameZ & ruleZ sowie von weiteren Autor:innen aus der Fachrichtung Game Design.
Narrative Mechanics. Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life | Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher (eds.)
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What do stories in games have in common with political narratives?
This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society – such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design – of game mechanics.
Swiss Graphic Design Histories | Sarah Owens et al. (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
Swiss Graphic Design Histories offers an entirely new redefinition of Switzerland’s graphic design landscape. Based on extensive research by scholars of design history and with a multiple and inclusive approach, it reaches beyond the usual canon and the well-known epicenters Basel and Zurich with the Germanophone fathers of what has become famous as the Swiss Style in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Edited by Davide Fornari, Robert Lzicar, Sarah Owens, Michael Renner, Arne Scheuermann and Peter J. Schneemann.
Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political, economic, cultural and ecological systems. This book shows how this entanglement arose from Eurocentric and neoliberal thinking. The voices and practices represented here propose to question and disrupt the discipline of design from within, by problematizing the very notions of design. They aim to do so by generating new, anti-racist, post-capitalist, queer-feminist, environmentally conscious and community-based ideas on how to transform design. In this way, Design Strugglesstrives to forge sustainable, new practices within the design field that challenge the status quo and amplify underrepresented voices, both in the world of design, as well as beyond.
Ein Zeitgeist-Glossar von Achtsamkeit bis Zigarette
Moral Phobia ist unnatürlich, unbekümmert und undiszipliniert. Es raucht und trinkt, isst Fleisch, treibt kaum Sport und war gestern Nacht wieder der letzte Gast. Moral Phobia vernachlässigt soziale Netzwerke und Selbstoptimierungsangebote und plädiert für das Alberne und Abseitige, Faule und Fremde, Undurchsichtige, Unbequeme, Überflüssige und Verstörende – in der Hoffnung auf weniger aufgeräumte, vielfältigere Zeiten.
500 Seiten, Gudberg Nerger, 2015
ISBN 978-3-943061-35-2