Videogames about politics as states of exception
This article looks at videogames about politics within the theoretical framework of Giorgio Agamben’s states of exception and argues that while videogames can reveal political issues by implementing rules into the gameplay, they simultaneously render the in-game rules and consequences inoperative in...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: "Democracy Dies Playfully: (Anti-)Democratic Ideas in and Around Video Games" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| In: |
Gamevironments
Year: 2020, Volume: 13, Pages: 257-289 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Agamben, Giorgio 1942-, Stato di eccezione
/ Agamben, Giorgio 1942-
/ Video game
/ Rules of the game
/ Politics
/ Law
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZC Politics in general ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
gamevironments
B Play B state of exception B pure means B Politics B Agamben B Inoperativity B Videogames B Rules B Freedom B Desecration |
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