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Country | Denmark |
Institutional affiliation | IT University of Copenhagen |
Title | Associate Professor |
Research interests relevant to game philosophy | My main research interest is the aesthetic capacity of digital games, particularly their inherent potential for self-thematization and -reflection. To this end, I find myself frequently confronted with fundamental questions of reasoning, cognition, and knowledge formation. Building on media history and narratology, my method generally strives to integrate a structurally sound understanding of games in their ontological complexity with in-depth studies of apparatuses and discourse formations in a Foucauldian tradition. |
Publications and presentations relevant to game philosophy | – “A Redneck Head on a Nazi Body. Subversive Ludo-Narrative Strategies in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.” In: ARTS 7 (2018). Special Issue “Gaming and the Arts of Storytelling”, ed. by Darshana Jayemanne. (https://doi.org/10.3390/arts7040076) |
Keywords | aesthetics, ontology, self-referentiality, ethics, Foucault |
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Name | Hans-Joachim Backe |
Background | game studies, media studies, comparative literature |