Book chapter
The body without organs and Internet gaming addiction
Deleuze and new technology, pp.185-205
Edinburgh University Press
2009
Abstract
This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of body without organs in relation to Internet-gaming addiction, particularly first-person shooter games. It offers the view of Internet gaming addiction as a pathological impetus to reform particular modes of emergence that derive from the effects of striation, habit, and intensity. The chapter suggests that Internet-gaming addiction is a specific configuration of mechanic, organic and imaginative emergences that express a need to continuously reconfigure themselves.
Details
- Title
- The body without organs and Internet gaming addiction
- Authors/Creators
- I. Cook (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- M. Poster (Editor)D. Savat (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Deleuze and new technology, pp.185-205
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh
- Identifiers
- 991005542756207891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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