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

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Meh, the bantering and back and forth, while playing 2 on 2 Fifa games with
my friends was an important chunk of my social development (and an excellent
pregaming activity).  Playing the "less cool" genres like roleplaying games
is definitely more atomizing, but how is that much different than watching a
movie?

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> 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
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>