The Virtual Ninja Manifesto
Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the 'virtual ninja' can emerge as an aspirational figure in the twenty-first century. Engaging with the literature around embodied cognition, Zen philosophy and techno-Orientalism it argues that virtual martial arts can be reconstructed as vehicles for moral cultivation and self-transformation. It argues that the kind of training required to master videogames approximates the kind of training described in Zen literature on the martial art…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78348-982-4
- EAN: 9781783489824
- Produktnummer: 19706798
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.9 cm 225 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 225
Über den Autor
Chris Goto-Jones is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow of SOAS, University of London.
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