{"product_id":"los-santos-plays-itself-vol-1-paperback","title":"Los Santos Plays Itself: (Vol. 1) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatteo Bittanti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJordy Veenstra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Santos Plays \u003c\/i\u003eItself begins with a simple claim: the most obsessively filmed city in contemporary art may be a fake Los Angeles built by Rockstar Games. Taking its cue from Thom Andersen's \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Plays Itself\u003c\/i\u003e, the book asks what happens when video art and post-photographic practices run on a commercial game engine. If Andersen traced how cinema framed a city, this study follows how simulation generates its own urban logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross more than seventy works made between 2013 and 2025, the book tracks artists who treat Grand Theft Auto V as software rather than a narrative. Their work exposes \u003ci\u003eLos Santos \u003c\/i\u003eas executable code: an apparatus in which ideology is encoded into traffic models, weather systems, and police routines. Machinima becomes a post-cinematic practice that scripts resistance into this procedural logic through ambient observation, modding, and infrastructural critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 362\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71808544735485,"sku":"9788869775208","price":50.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/XhmF_QljE29788869775208.webp?v=1793814664","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/los-santos-plays-itself-vol-1-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}