[lbo-talk] Query on Katrina vanden Heuvel

[Dennis Redmond]

Just as the best of past aesthetic forms helped catalyze the resistances to
past empires, the best of today's videogames catalyze contemporary
resistances.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> How is the videogame critique of the empire different from cinema critique
> or literary critique of it? There is plenty of critique in the latter two
> forms and this doesn't seem to have much effect on the empire, does it?
>
> Wojtek
> Sent from my Droid
> On Mar 29, 2013 5:52 PM, "Dennis Redmond" <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > The potential opened by Arab Spring, Wisconsin, & OWS is still there
> > >
> >
> > Indeed it is. Especially notable in videogames, where critiques of empire
> > are beginning to turn into critiques of capital. This isn't about
> marginal,
> > cult franchises, but industry blockbusters like Bioshock, Metal Gear,
> > Uncharted, The Witcher, etc. The digital artists have shattered the
> chains
> > of plutocracy.
> >
> > -- DRR
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