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The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism

By: Chris Goto-Jones

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The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism

By: Chris Goto-Jones

Navigating between society’s moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the ‘virtual ninja’ can emerge as an aspirational figure in the twenty-first century. Engaging with the literature around embodied cognition, Zen philosophy and techno-Orientalism it argues that virtual martial arts can be reconstructed as vehicles for moral cultivation and self-transformation. It argues that the kind of training required to master videogames approximates the kind of training described in Zen literature on the martial arts. Arguing that shift from the actual dōjō to a digital dōjō represents only a change in the technological means of practice, it offers a new manifesto for gamers to signify their gaming practice. Moving beyond perennial debates about the role of violence in videogames and the manipulation of moral choices in gamic environments it explores the possibility that games promote and assess spiritual development.

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1783489839

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9781783489831

Conjuring Asia

Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World

By: Chris Goto-Jones

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Conjuring Asia

Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World

By: Chris Goto-Jones

The promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the so-called 'Golden Age Magicians' from the turn of the twentieth century, Chris Goto-Jones unveils the ways in which European and North American encounters with (and representations of) Asia - the fabled Mystic East - worked to re-enchant experiences of the modern world. Beginning with a reconceptualization of the meaning of 'modern magic' itself - moving beyond conventional categories of 'real' and 'fake' magic - Goto-Jones' acclaimed book guides us on a magical mystery tour around India, China, and Japan, showing us levitations and decapitations, magic duels and bullet catches, goldfish bowls and paper butterflies. In the end, this mesmerizing book reveals Orientalism as a kind of magic in itself, casting a spell over Western culture that leaves it transformed, even today.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316720624

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9781316720622

Blood: A Very Short Introduction

By: Chris Cooper

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Blood: A Very Short Introduction

By: Chris Cooper

Blood is vital to most animals. In mammals it transports oxygen and food, carries away waste, and contains the white cells that attack invading microbes. Playing a central role in life, it has had profound cultural and historical significance and plays an important role in religious ritual. Blood was one of the four humours in early Western medicine and is still probably the major diagnostic tool in the doctor's armoury. In this Very Short Introduction, Chris Cooper analyses the components of blood, explains blood groups, and looks at transfusions, blood tests, and blood-borne diseases. He considers what the future may hold, including the possibility of making artificial blood, and producing blood from stem cells in the laboratory. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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169

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Oxford University Press

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0191665169

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9780191665165

Prehistory

A Very Short Introduction

By: Chris Gosden

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Prehistory

A Very Short Introduction

By: Chris Gosden

Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history. In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Chris Gosden explores the current theories on the ebb and flow of human cultural variety.

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Oxford University Press

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0198803516

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Conjuring Asia

Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World

By: Chris Goto-Jones

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Mindfulness and the Search for Meaning

Monk, Ninja, Doctor, Zombie

By: Chris Goto-Jones

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Mindfulness and the Search for Meaning

Monk, Ninja, Doctor, Zombie

By: Chris Goto-Jones

What is mindfulness? Is it therapy, a religious practice, a philosophy or a practical means of navigating the every day? Using the stories of four archetypal characters - the monk, ninja, doctor, and zombie - this book unpacks the assumptions, motivations and expectations we now bring to the meditative practice of mindfulness. The four types act as our guides through an exploration of mindfulness and the deeply ideological debates surrounding it. The monk stands for mindfulness as spiritual purity, wisdom and enlightenment; the ninja self-mastery and a consummate zen skill and the doctor is the model of meditative practice as used in treatments and professional care. The zombie, far from being an aspirational model, epitomizes a common fear: mindfulness as cult-mentality. Balancing Buddhism, Daoism, Stoicism, contemporary therapeutic paradigms and capitalist imagery with firsthand accounts from teachers and students, this is the story of mindfulness as a various, complex way of living.

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Bloomsbury Academic

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1350215376

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The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism

By: Chris Goto-Jones

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Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism

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The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

Conjuring Asia

Conjuring Asia

Blood: A Very Short Introduction

Blood: A Very Short Introduction

Prehistory

Prehistory

Conjuring Asia

Conjuring Asia

Mindfulness and the Search for Meaning

Mindfulness and the Search for Meaning

The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

The Virtual Ninja Manifesto

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