“Computers create compelling, dynamic digital depictions of potential universes. Their simulations extrapolate from what is to what might be, fancifully or plausibly. In a sense, the slogan of every gamer is “another world is (temporarily) possible.” There is nothing necessarily dissident about this. Many— probably most— digital virtualities amplify and reinforce imperial actualities, as we have discussed. And flight to imaginary worlds can be a dead- end escape. But aspects of gameplay can and occasionally do link to radical social potentials. So here we ask: Can there be “games of multitude”? Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig De Peuter, Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games, University of Minnesota Press, p.XXXIII
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:18:21 +0000
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