Tag: Book Club
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TONIGHT: No Escape From Book Club 2024’s First Meeting!
Since 2019 No Escape has been a site all about games and digital culture in “an age of conflict.” With said conflicts brewing around the world daily, we’re starting up a new book club to hopefully help make sense of it all. The theme of 2024’s book club is “games and conflict.” We’re going to…
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Gamer Trouble Book Club #1: O Gamer My Gamer
Gamers have always been “trouble,” writes Amanda Phillips, and they are here to make trouble for gamers.
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The Return of the No Escape Book Club
COMING SOON: A serial close reading of Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, by Asst. Prof. Amanda Phillips
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The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games, Chapter Two: “A Toxic Culture”
Seasonal Book Club is a new recurring feature here at No Escape, wherein I try to get through a book about video games, one chapter at a time. This season’s book club entry is The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture is the Worst, by Christopher A. Paul.
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The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games, Chapter One: “Leveling Up in Life”
Seasonal Book Club is a new recurring feature here at No Escape, wherein I try to get through a book about video games, one chapter at a time. This season’s book club entry is The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture is the Worst, by Christopher A. Paul.