�Poetics� of computer games as the basis of contemporary popular culture and its interdisciplinary studies

• Autores: Tadeusz Miczka
• Localización: Visiones multidisciplinares sobre la cultura popular: actas del 5.º Congreso Internacional de SELICUP / coord. por Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo, María del Mar Ramón Torrijos, 2014, ISBN 978-84-617-0400-2, págs. 425-435
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Decentering is a characteristic quality of contemporary popular culture. There are many phenomena, processes, criteria and contexts, in other words causes, which we cannot balance, and they all decide about its character. The aim of my article is to prove that their sources are in the �poetics� of computer games. I agree with Ted Friedman, who claims that computer games assign direction for culture, which we all follow in order to play with future. They are different from traditional games because of the character of their dichotomy. In the past necessity (rules and instructions) overwhelmed coincidence or at least they both were balanced. Nowadays coincidence overwhelms necessity.

    Bountifulness and the changeability of rules and instructions decide not only about those most popular forms of fun and communication but also about the character of interaction strategies, which have to be used by increasing group of popular culture participants. Therefore, the adjusting of these strategies or the critical reflection on them gives the researchers an opportunity to improve their knowledge about chances and dangers which are brought to contemporary man by popular culture. It is also important because of the fact that such postmodern game becomes the basis for an interdisciplinary approach, which has to be scientifically redefined in context of popular culture. Commenting on this issue, I do not agree with Jean Francois Lyotard and his opinion that an interdisciplinary approach is already beyond the control of science and this constitutes its vital strength.