[lbo-talk] It's May Day....

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 3 12:37:11 PDT 2010


On May 3, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:38 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
>
> Videogames have delivered some of the most
>> ferocious critiques of Empire and neoliberalism ever cooked up by
>> artists.
>>
>
> You've said this before, but due in no small part to my own apathy
> about
> gaming, I've never had any idea what you were talking about. Would you
> consider sending out a bibliography of these games, so those of us
> who are
> curious can at least Google some screenshots?

Old fart that I am, videogames kind of give me the creeps. Content aside, don't they encourage people to sit in front of a screen all by themselves in a way that encourages atomization and social isolation?

Doug



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