Abstract
This creative nonfiction piece presents a first-person account of my research-driven encounter with African Safari-themed poker machines, or 'slots'. In essence, the piece seeks to characterise and analyse the animal iconography, and associated 'valuing' of the animals within the poker machines narratives, and to convey a sense of the context of The Gaming Lounge, and the players who inhabit that space. What emerges is insight into the function of these poker machine narratives as popular cultural texts contributing to the construction of non-human animals as commodities, and quite explicitly rendering them as capital.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 114-117 |
| Journal | Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture |
| Issue number | 30 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Creative Writing (incl Playwriting)
- Screen and Media Culture
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