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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:18:46 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:17:43 -0600 From: mktgtwo@umn.edu To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: Cybermind / GAMES OF EMPIRE: Global Capitalism and Video Games Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Cybermind. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu Analyzes video games and their links with capitalism, militarism, and social control GAMES OF EMPIRE: Global Capitalism and Video Games By Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2009 ISBN 978-0-8166-6610-2 | hardcover | $60.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-6611-9| paperback | $19.95 Electronic Mediations, volume 29 Games of Empire offers a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto. Rejecting both moral panic and glib enthusiasm, Games of Empire demonstrates how virtual games crystallize the cultural, political, and economic forces of global capital, while also providing a means of resisting them. "Games of Empire is not only an extraordinarily wide-ranging, rich, empirically grounded, and theoretically-savvy contribution to the field of game studies, but also an instance of that playful genius of immaterial labor that the book crucially investigates. The book is a must-read for all students and scholars of gaming cultures, and an eye-opener to the crucial importance of gaming to the broader level of societal power for everybody else." -Tiziana Terranova, author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/dyer-witheford_games.html For more information on the Electronic Mediations Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/mediaalert.html - Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 skinn077@umn.edu v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu