Playing at a Distance: Borderlands of Video Game Aesthetic

An essential exploration of the video game aesthetic that decenters the human player—requiring little human action—and challenges what it means to play.

Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum theory? In Playing at a Distance, Sonia Fizek engages with these and many more daunting questions, forging new ways to think and talk about games and play that decenter the human player an...