Juan J Vargas-Iglesias
Biographic Data
| ID | 144645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan J Vargas-Iglesias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargas-Iglesias |
| SIGNATURE | VARGAS-IGLESIAS J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Sevilla |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3646-7326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
La Adaptación Desde Una Perspectiva Ludoficcional. Literatura Y Videojuegos en El Ámbito Hispanoamericano
Critique of the living dead: Algorithmic aesthetic and the biopolitics of the zombie
Recognizing the importance of the zombie in the interpretative forms of contemporaneity, this paper aims to actualize the current focus of the phenomenon in order to understand it within a strictly material framework. Its aim therewith is to take the perception of the zombie, not as a symptom or metaphor as commonly done, but as a floating signifier in order to analyze the material conditions that allow it to be understood as a symptom or metapho…
Making Sense of Genre: The Logic of Video Game Genre Organization
Despite the importance that the dimension of genre holds in media studies, its very definition in the field of video games is still a matter without consensus. This study intends to outline the logic that lies within the constitution of videoludic genres, understanding them as formal devices configured as per the different thought functions stated by Piaget's cognitive psychology theory. This project will propose a formalist approach from a cyber…
The ability of video games to depict cancer as a dramatic experience. A comparative study with literature and cinema
Given that the democratisation of video games has allowed this industry to appropriate a series of themes traditionally the exclusive preserve of other expressive media, this work analyses the capacity of videoludic expression to elicit emotions and convey the seriousness of cancer by performing a comparative study with literature and cinema. To this end, three works (one per medium) were selected to be respectively read, viewed or played by all …
Beyond Rules and Mechanics: A Different Approach for Ludology
Due to its affiliation with formalism, ludology, the scientific perspective prioritized in game studies, considers the rule–mechanic binomial to be an essential principle of any scholarly approach to video games. Nevertheless, the limitation of the game system order implies that, as a fundamental part of this epistemological approach, the empirical validity of its methodology is already being rejected. As such, this article attempts to shift the …
Semiotic and discursive consequences of the cybertextual condition: The case of tragedy
In recognition of the central place that the concept of tragedy holds in the historical understanding of culture and society, this paper features an analysis of its presence, current state, and value in the digital environments of the postmodern era, with special attention to videogames. Thus, the overcoming of a classic model of tragedy in the cybertextual condition is first determined, along with the discursive dimension underlying said overcom…
Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames
This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies. The second is to examine the ways in which there has been an application of the utopian genre throughout videogame history (the style of procedural rhetoric and the subgenre of walking simulator) and the way in which the material dim…
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Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames
This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies. The second is to examine the ways in which there has been an application of the utopian genre throughout videogame history (the style of procedural rhetoric and the subgenre of walking simulator) and the way in which the material dim…
The ability of video games to depict cancer as a dramatic experience. A comparative study with literature and cinema
Given that the democratisation of video games has allowed this industry to appropriate a series of themes traditionally the exclusive preserve of other expressive media, this work analyses the capacity of videoludic expression to elicit emotions and convey the seriousness of cancer by performing a comparative study with literature and cinema. To this end, three works (one per medium) were selected to be respectively read, viewed or played by all …
Beyond Rules and Mechanics: A Different Approach for Ludology
Due to its affiliation with formalism, ludology, the scientific perspective prioritized in game studies, considers the rule–mechanic binomial to be an essential principle of any scholarly approach to video games. Nevertheless, the limitation of the game system order implies that, as a fundamental part of this epistemological approach, the empirical validity of its methodology is already being rejected. As such, this article attempts to shift the …
Semiotic and discursive consequences of the cybertextual condition: The case of tragedy
In recognition of the central place that the concept of tragedy holds in the historical understanding of culture and society, this paper features an analysis of its presence, current state, and value in the digital environments of the postmodern era, with special attention to videogames. Thus, the overcoming of a classic model of tragedy in the cybertextual condition is first determined, along with the discursive dimension underlying said overcom…
Making Sense of Genre: The Logic of Video Game Genre Organization
Despite the importance that the dimension of genre holds in media studies, its very definition in the field of video games is still a matter without consensus. This study intends to outline the logic that lies within the constitution of videoludic genres, understanding them as formal devices configured as per the different thought functions stated by Piaget's cognitive psychology theory. This project will propose a formalist approach from a cyber…
La Adaptación Desde Una Perspectiva Ludoficcional. Literatura Y Videojuegos en El Ámbito Hispanoamericano
Critique of the living dead: Algorithmic aesthetic and the biopolitics of the zombie
Recognizing the importance of the zombie in the interpretative forms of contemporaneity, this paper aims to actualize the current focus of the phenomenon in order to understand it within a strictly material framework. Its aim therewith is to take the perception of the zombie, not as a symptom or metaphor as commonly done, but as a floating signifier in order to analyze the material conditions that allow it to be understood as a symptom or metapho…
Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence in Games (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Multimedia (3 works) · Perspective (graphical (3 works)