CNAP – Video Games and the Future Beyond the Human

Game Analysis. Media Studies. Non-Anthropocentric Futures.  Non-anthropocentric game design. Ecological narratives, speculative worlds. Emotional and cognitive impact of interactive systems.

Welcome to CNAP – Center for Non-Anthropocentric Play, a channel dedicated to exploring how video games, XR, and interactive media shape our social imaginaries. Here, we analyze games and media as cultural artifacts, questioning how they reinforce or challenge human-centered worldviews.

Drawing from game studies, affective gaming, speculative thinking, and biocentric philosophy, CNAP examines alternative imaginaries where humanity is no longer at the center, but one living element among others within biodiversity.

Our goal is to entertain, question, and educate, while opening space for new forms of play, meaning, and coexistence between humans, non-humans, and ecosystems.

Explore play beyond the human.
Rethink worlds.
Reimagine our place within the living.