> On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:21 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
>
>> Which is doubly ironic, considering that those toys otherwise known as
>> videogames have spawned one of the most subversive, Leftwing mass media
>> in history.
>
> And an utterly passive population. A new take on repressive
> desublimation?
Videogames don't play themselves. Most of the major post-2000 franchises have extraordinarily deep connections to the digital commons and, surprising as it sounds, to the media cultures spawned by the developmental states (those on the list who live in the BRICs will understand why). Gaming is saturated with sophisticated and cosmopolitan anti-neoliberal narratives.
There's no precedent for this kind of shift in any previous mass media revolution. Radio, film and TV were all captured by Capital shortly after their invention, but games have become *more* radical with each passing year.
-- DRR