Add Your Two Cents to Gamer Theory 2.0

Gamer Theory was an interesting experiment in publishing--a "networked book" that used an experimental web format to collect comments from readers on the work as it was in progress. The author, McKenzie Wark, has taken those comments and contributions and used them to revise the book to come up with Gamer Theory 2.0.

Rather than try to explain to you what Gamer Theory is all about, I'll just let them do it:

Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society. The book depicts a world becoming an inescapable series of less and less perfect games. This world gives rise to a new persona. In place of the subject or citizen stands the gamer. As all previous such personae had their breviaries and manuals, Gamer Theory
seeks to offer guidance for thinking within this new character. Neither a strategy guide nor a cheat sheet for improving one's score or skills, the book is instead a primer in thinking about a world made over as a gamespace, recast as an imperfect copy of the game.

The book covers an interesting array of games, from Rez to State of Emergency to Katamari Damacy. If, unlike Kohler, you've always wanted to write a book but haven't quite managed it, this could be your chance to share your brilliance and insight with the gaming world.

The Institute for the Future of the Book is responsible for *Gamer Theory 2.0'*s avant-garde format; the traditional paper and ink version was published by Harvard University Press.