Video Games: Time Machines and Subjectivity Mutations

This article examines the implications of contemporary societies relationship with technology. Our reflection focus on the impact video games have on the relation time-subjectivity-knowledge, through narrative transformations and their subsequent alterations of cultural and social sensibilities. Lik...

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Autor Principal: Cabra Ayala, Nina Alejandra; Universidad Central
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Facultad de Comunicación y Lenguaje 2010
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/signoypensamiento/article/view/2515
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Sumario: This article examines the implications of contemporary societies relationship with technology. Our reflection focus on the impact video games have on the relation time-subjectivity-knowledge, through narrative transformations and their subsequent alterations of cultural and social sensibilities. Likewise, we put forward the idea that video games are shaped and formed as a result of science fiction’s proposals, all considered as modernity’s meta-narrative via the consolidation of the cyborg’s metaphor as a an altered and reinvented body.