Haptivism. Technics of the Body in Computer Games / Alina Latypova & Alexander Lenkevich (Laboratory for Computer Games Research)

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Computer games as a part of culture suggest a variety of practices of gamer’s body organisation, its assemblage, discipline, construction. Still they suppose zones of resistance to normalisation through experiments (from speedrunning to performances, etc.). Such hacking of the emerging corporeal schemes is analysed through the concept “haptivism”.

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Haptivism. Technics of
Body in Computer Games
Alina LATYPOVA,
Laboratory for Computer Games Research
Alexander LENKEVICH,
Laboratory for Computer Games Research

PainStation
Museum of Computer
Games (Berlin)

Computer games offer us not only
a variety of representation
techniques, but also performative
techniques. Action, movement
(Nørgaard 2010), body thinking
(Kamper 1997), etc. Which is also
related to the technologies of
immersion, involvement,
incorporation (Calleja 2011).

Procedural corporeality
The procedural corporeality is working not on the level of
representation or ideas, it works on the ontological level.

Calculations (core of computer technologies) emancipates the
imagination of players, on the other hand, inscribes them in additional
regulatory standards, which are also related to the elaboration of
corporeal experience in the development of controllers, interfaces, and
game rules (Kirkpatrick 2009).

Gamer’s Body Setting
• Consoles
• PC
• Mobile
• VR, AR

Export of game experience: gamepads on
submarines

The controllers not only play
the role of mediators of the
gaming experience, but also
form it (Blomberg 2018).

Haptivism
(haptos + active)
Hacking of the
corporeal experience in
computer games.

O-zone
Explain instructions to
your partner to restore
the oxygen rate

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