Gambling-machines and the automation of desire

Platform

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-51

  Torres, César Albarrán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Chasing; Desiring machines; Electronic Gaming Machines; Exotica; Videogame theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887131639     PISSN: 18365132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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