BioShock
Subtitle: decision, forced choice and propaganda
By: Robert Jackson
Contributors: BioShock
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Winchester, United Kingdom; Washington, United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781782793472
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Video games industry; Decision making
Description: A historical, critical look at the famous videogame franchise BioShock, understanding it through philosophical, ideological and computational interpretations of systems, decisions and 'propaganda'.--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-339).
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Decision Ecologies: How can a Choice be 'Forced'?; title: Chapter 2. Decision and Forced Choice Inherent to Videogames; title: Chapter 3. Forced Choice: 'BioShock' and Retroactive Causation; title: Chapter 4. Forced Choice and the Apparatus: Fate, Allegory and Retroactivity in Psychoanalysis; title: Chapter 5. Decision: 'BioShock Infinite' and the Marketplace of Ideas; title: Chapter 6. Decision: Propaganda, Turing, Ellul and the Reality of Automated Ideals; title: Postscripts: The Future of 'BioShock': The Future of Games. The Future of Propaganda.