A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities

Games and Culture

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 392-404

  Giddings, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bataille; Baudrillard; Ethnography; Play; Realities; Simulacra; Simulation; Situationist International; Surrealism; Technology; Videogames; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249145022     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412007309534     Document Type: Article

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