Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any medium—from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art—can be read as a configurative system of discrete, interlocking units of meaning, and he illustrates this method of analysis with examples from all these...
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A critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artifacts—whether videogames, literature, or film—as configurative systems of interlocking units of meaning.
