Description

• Title:
  Technologies of nostalgia. Analysis of retrotopia in World of Warships
• Creator:
  Kłosiński, Michał
• Description:
  The paper presents an analysis of the ORP Błyskawica ship in World of Warships. The study concerns the retrotopian and mythological image of the replica of a real warship created in the game. The analysis and interpretation touch upon both the model of acquiring ships within the framework of playbour and the very idea of faithfully reproducing a historical artefact. The reflection concerns, therefore, virtual technology employed in the service of nostalgia and of dreams, and as a tool for constructing myths about the glorious past in which military technologies developed. For this purpose, the text introduces a new research category, namely a quasi-historical item.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2020.07.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Postscriptum Polonistyczne; Vol. 25 No. 1 (2020): Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Prize in Literature 2018; 272-281;
  Postscriptum Polonistyczne; Tom 25 Nr 1 (2020): Olga Tokarczuk – Literacka Nagroda Nobla 2018; 272-281;
  2353-9844;
  1898-1593
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9568/7400
• Subject:
  Gaming studies;
  retrotopia;
  video games;
  World of Warships
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9568
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text