Matti Karhulahti
PhD, Adjunct Professor in Play and Games
vmmkar@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3709-5341 |
At the moment, my research roams around various ludic extremes across and beyond media; from aesthetic, competitive, and sexual forms of play to behavioral, cognitive, and narrative dimensions of engagement in general. Anthropological, philosophical, and psychological approaches are making me happy in particular. Addiction debates, esports, and the cross-cultural mysteries of the human lifecycle (especially thru Asia and Korea) will keep me busy for a good while in the future as well.
At the moment, my research roams around various ludic extremes across and beyond media; from aesthetic, competitive, and sexual forms of play to behavioral, cognitive, and narrative dimensions of engagement in general. Anthropological, philosophical, and psychological approaches are making me happy in particular. Addiction debates, esports, and the cross-cultural mysteries of the human lifecycle (especially thru Asia and Korea) will keep me busy for a good while in the future as well.
At the moment, my research roams around various ludic extremes across and beyond media; from aesthetic, competitive, and sexual forms of play to behavioral, cognitive, and narrative dimensions of engagement in general. Anthropological, philosophical, and psychological approaches are making me happy in particular. Addiction debates, esports, and the cross-cultural mysteries of the human lifecycle (especially thru Asia and Korea) will keep me busy for a good while in the future as well.
- Hermeneutics and Ludocriticism [abstract] (2014)
- Conference of Digital Games Research Association
(Other publication) - Ludology, Narratology and Philosophical HermeneuticsDouble Fine Adventure and the Double Hermeneutic Videogame (2014) DiGRA Nordic '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International DiGRA Nordic Conference Jonne Arjoranta, Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Unnatural Narratives? Games and Game Studies in Postclassical Narratology (2014) Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(Other publication) - Adventure Games in Kinesthetic Videogame Theory – A Demand-based Framework for Conceptualizing the Narrative (2013) FDG ‘13 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(Other publication) - A Kinesthetic Theory of Videogames – Time-Critical Challenge and Aporetic Rhematic (2013)
- Game Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fiction Puzzle – Storiable Challenge in Pragmatist Videogame Aesthetics (Philosophy & Technology -special issue) (2013)
- Philosophy & Technology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (Kusen suihkulähteeseen!) – Videopelit ja sulkeutuneen ilmaisun taide (2013)
- WiderScreen
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Puzzle Is Not a Game! – Basic Structures of Challenge (2013) Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Videogame as avant-garde – Secluded rhematic expression (2013) Context Matters! Exploring and Reframing Games and Play in Context Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - (2012) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fun and Games Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )



