Ludic Method Talk: Of Floating Isles

Kawika Guillermo's recent book Of Floating Isles. On Growing Pains and Video Games is a collection of essays that combines an autobiographical approach with an analysis of the cultural meaning of games and the social and political economy of emotions that surround them. By focusing not on the game as a system, but on the player's personal experience, it breaks new ground in thinking and writing about games.

 

Kawika will present their book and then be available for discussion.

 

Kawika Guillermo (they/he) is an award-winning author of seven books and a third generation Filipinx American whose family is primarily from Hawai’i and Texas. Their debut novel, Stamped: an anti-travel novel, won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Creative Prose, and was adapted into a free-to-play video game, Stamped: an anti-travel game.  Kawika publishes academic work under their patrilineal/legal name, Christopher B. Patterson, where they work as Graduate Chair and Professor of The Social Justice Institute at The University of British Columbia.