Dr Chloe Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Dr Paul Wake (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games. At a time of renewed interest in analogue gaming, as scholars are looking beyond the digital and virtual for the first time since the inception of game studies in the 1990s, Material Game Studies not only supports the importance of the (re)turn to the analogue, but proposes a materiality of play more broadly. Recognizing the entanglement of physical materiality with cultural meaning, the authors in this volume apply a range of theoretical approaches, from...
This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games. At a time of renewed interest in a...
