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Playing at the World, 2E

The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons

by Jon Peterson

ISBN: 9780262548779

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Enacting Platforms

Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine

by James Malazita

ISBN: 9780262548243

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 2, 2024

An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studies framework itself.

Take This Hammer

Work, Song, Crisis

by Paul Rekret

ISBN: 9781913380168

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2024

A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life.

Psychedelics

A Visual Odyssey

by Erika Dyck

ISBN: 9780262547666

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 16, 2024

A gorgeously illustrated journey through psychedelics and their global history that explores how psychedelic visions have inspired and given meaning to humans throughout time.

Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

Edited by Premeet Sidhu, Marcus Carter and José P. Zagal

ISBN: 9780262547604

Publisher: MITP

Pub Date: April 9, 2024

On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a collection of essays that explores and celebrates the game's legacy and its tremendous impact on gaming and popular culture.

Optimizing Play

Why Theorycrafting Breaks Games and How to Fix It

by Christopher A. Paul

ISBN: 9780262547789

Publisher: MIT Press

Pub Date: March 19, 2024

An unexpected take on how games work, what the stakes are for them, and how game designers can avoid the traps of optimization.

The Rule Book

The Building Blocks of Games

by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola

ISBN: 9780262547444

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 12, 2024

How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work.

Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

by J. G. Ballard

Edited by Mark Blacklock

Foreword by Tom McCarthy

ISBN: 9780262048323

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 24, 2023

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.