Embodied metaphors: Exposing informatic control through first-person shooters

Games and Culture

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 245-258

  Rush, Jeff ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 334C Annenberg Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aarseth; aporia; computer games; Deleuze; epiphany; first person shooters; Galloway; interactivity; Metaphor; Riceour; Societies of Control; video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955795273     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412010364977     Document Type: Article

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