Unit OperationsAn Approach to Videogame Criticism In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any mediumfrom videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or artcan be read as a configurative system of discrete, interlocking units of