The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice: Procedural Habits

Steve Holmes

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice: Procedural Habits
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 September 2017
Pages
274
ISBN
9781138303270

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice: Procedural Habits

Steve Holmes

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of habit offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing and rhetoric) and embodiment. The book demonstrates how Aristotle’s understanding of character (ethos), habit (hexis), and nature (phusis) can productively connect rhetoric to what Holmes calls procedural habits : the ways in which rhetoric emerges from its interactions with the dynamic accumulation of conscious and nonconscious embodied experiences that consequently give rise to meaning, procedural subjectivity, control, and communicative agency both in digital game design discourse and the activity of play.

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