Laura Op de Beke

• Op de Beke, Laura (2021). Pastoral Videogames: Industry, Entropy, Elegy. Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. ISSN 2717-8943. 2(2), s. 177–191.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2021). Procedural Futurism in Climate Change Videogames. Alluvium 21st-Century Writing 21st-Century Approaches. ISSN 2050-1560. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Op de Beke, Laura (2021). Premediating climate change in videogames: Repetition, mastery, and failure. Nordic Journal of Media Studies. ISSN 2003-184X. doi: 10.2478/njms-2021-0010. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Op de Beke, Laura (2020). Anthropocene Temporality in Gaia Games. KronoScope. ISSN 1567-715X.

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• Op de Beke, Laura (2021). “The Oil Blue and the Ecstatic Present”.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2021). “Deep Time LARP: A Speculative Storytelling Game”.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2020). Building Alternative Tech Trees.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2020). Ritual, Trauma, and Climate Change in Video Games.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2020). Lockdown, Labour, and Leisure: Gaming in Quarantine. [Internett]. http://timesofcovid19.temporalities.no.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2020). Anthropocene Temporality in Videogames. Vis sammendrag

  Do videogames help us engage with climate change and the nonhuman timescale of the Anthropocene? Or do they reflect exactly the kind of expansionist, techno-utopian logic that got us into this crisis in the first place? Most likely, the truth is somewhere in the middle. This talk briefly introduces the potential of videogames as environmental media by focusing on the way they engage with what I call Anthropocene temporality. In particular, I highlight a trope that has become popular in so-called god games recently: the move from map-style interfaces to the use of whole Earth images and models. This trope signals an overt and growing – although as I will point out, imperfect – engagement with planetarity: an emerging worldview that posits the planet as a world-ecology, one that imbeds both human and nonhuman forces while calling for a renewed attendance to the ethics and aesthetics of relationality. At the same time, my talk will also note the perpetuation in videogames of generic tropes and conventions like the tech tree and expansionist gameplay – which run counter to their environmentalist message. In doing so they videogames stage a dynamic at the heart of Anthropocene temporality, which casts humans as geologic subjects embedded in a planetary ecology that we continuously bump up against or seek to transcend.

• Op de Beke, Laura (2019). Environmental Humanities Reading Group blog.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2019). Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel by Adeline Johns-Putra. English Studies: A Journal of English Language. ISSN 0013-838X. 100(7), s. 935–937 . doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2019.1658475.
• Op de Beke, Laura (2019). Forming the Future in Science Fiction Video Games.

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