[lbo-talk] gaming (was Vietnam (as dev state))

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Thu, February 26, 2009 7:34 am, Matt crossposted:


>> From http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html , "Is It Art?"
>>
> There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation
> as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the
> non-audience.

99 million Nintendo DSes argue otherwise. The entire Web is a gigantic
public space, and you can't run a Google search without tripping over a
videogame fansite.

Of course, game culture is highly discontinuous -- the PC game culture of
the 1980s is very different from the Nintendo culture of the early 1990s.

-- DRR