'We' aren't who it is that we think we 'are,' 'we' are not the rational, self-constituting individuals endowed with a natural essence or the free will of Enlightenment philosophy that 'exist' prior to our emergence in the social field, although to say that 'we' are indeed determined as subjects through mutually constitutive and intersecting power processes isn't to say that through diverse social practices that we can't struggle to 'beco...
But why try to present anti-racism, anti-sexism, etc as an ideology rather than an ethics as a social practice that can't always be located in discourse as opposed to that of common sense and experience, whether personal or collective? Although I wouldn't imply that this is your actual intent, the objectives in these types of arguments are generally a subtle politicized operation of polarization which claims: "You are an ideologue which I am not, therefore I am a free thinker and...
Going against the grain, huh? Although you won't find me engaging in debate or whatever about this type of stuff, I'd be lying if I said I don't largely agree with your take on things.
@ nobody in particular - You see, people often assume that high sales as being a corresponding signal for demand within market dynamics are a democratic and equitable practice or even an indication of 'quality,' but these commodities are often arbitrarily designed and introd...
No, actually I'm not, if you hadn't noticed I said 'along with other contributing factors,' which can include the experience of being bullied at school or the alienation of being at a perceived odds with the generally accepted criteria of what determines 'social success' rather than that of just drug use (I say this as someone who regularly enjoys drugs, including alcohol, and has been arrested countless times since I was a kid yet has never massacred a village of peop...
Is it ambiguous or is it overt? Even if interpretations can vary, vague criticisms will often defeat their own purpose.
Lol, but it's some of the professionals themselves that are attempting to link violent media with ruptures such as mass murder? Just because it hasn't affected you in this way doesn't mean that it won't, along with other contributing factors, affect someone else in this way. After all, popular media as an apparatus for the relay of power relations is just one aspect in the socialization process. With all the diffuse conditioning that takes place and results in the glorificatio...
I gotta agree with Alien, instead of meaningfully contributing to a discussion which is not only relevant to games but life, the most of everyone that posts in these types of articles responds with some generic, kneejerk rejection straight from the herd of common sense gone wrong. The various feminisms emerged as an autonomous resistance to patriarchal, sexist and oppressive relations which have always disproportionately impacted *girls and women,* and while the discourses and theories aren&#...
But what currently exists is still horrible and just as violent however it may be presented in popular media, and the fallout of it often hits the lower strata of the working class, regions that aren't so globally dominant or are just straight up authoritarian.
You're letting 'them' frame the alternative for you, which is hardly an alternative but a redistribution and restructuring of power relations among a bureaucratic elite. Like I said, Orwell was stoked o...
Or perhaps fascist bullshit, which is one of many logical conclusions to right wing politics (church, state, nationalism, capitalism, nuclear family, patriarchy, heterosexism, racism, herd instinct, etc)?
Let's just agree that totalitarianism is shit but that some things still need to be worked out in conflict, huh?
I haven't played this game and probably won't until the full version is released, but I personally don't think that in general the depiction of women as the ideal victims for relations of domination foisted upon them by men can ever really be done in 'good taste' or non-offensively, whether it's used as a sort of plot device that's supposed to emphasize tragedy, the brutality of the perpetrators or whatever.
Yes, rape happens and it's horrendou...
Also, Google 'panopticism' for a short summary on the practical role of a generalized surveillance apparatus!
Fun and little known fact: Orwell was both a socialist and a Trotsky sympathizer (eww) that wrote positively about his experiences with the POUM and anarchism during the period of revolution and civil war in 1930's Spain titled 'Homage to Catalonia,' which were the events that were the precursor to WW2.
But it seems as if a large portion of 'gamers' are children? I'm also not sure what method you use to gauge the maturity of the culture or the medium, but I hardly ever see it. I think that some of the aversion to these types of studies, which isn't entirely without reason because only someone who's out to deceive you or themselves would claim that the body of sciences and their practicioners are absolutely objective or value neutral, is that because some would reject any ...
Dude, maybe you do but I don't need to use a dictionary as a reference to effectively and actively engage in debate or employ various critical thoughts that I've been entrenched in since like forever, with my experiences and that of friends, comrades and other people that I care about having been the primary influences that opened me up to them in the first place, so once again quit attempting to build strawmen and reduce my arguments to an empty, abstract intellectualism or otherwise...
Oh bull fucking shit. Violent individuals and collectivities will certainly exist without the media to influence them, which in and of themselves aren't necessarily automatically negative or ethically untenable, but you act as if peer reviewed science is absolutely free of subjective interpretations, perspectives, or particular interests, almost so as if to justify your hobby as if it couldn't ever so much as have an influence on individuals as much as the discourses of certain hate g...
My criticism of the vast majority of game narratives, depictions of imagery and identities, and the industry in general still withstands, even as you dishonestly attempt to reduce it to a decontextualized academic discourse entirely unrelated to experience. I've been around N4G for awhile now and I think that it's probably common sense for many that wherever your posts pop up there's going to be a reactionary diatribe against any perceived 'social justice warriors' (as if ...
So art should be dominated by straight white dudes then? I honestly don't think the majority of video games can be categorized as art rather than a preventative power mechanism, a tactical polyvalence of discursive practices, an interactive spectacle that mediates social relations, and a commodity in an industry, like all others, where profit accumulation is most generally the primary concern which consequently tends to influence ethically bankrupt consumer values as determined by market ...
I'm not sure that a hostility towards corporate entities and relevant buyouts, even if sometimes it can reek of hypocrisy, can be considered narrow minded, especially as the disparity between the wealthy and everyone else with the constitutive intersections between the power interests of capital and the state having become all the more apparent for many in this generation of young adults.
I've seen so many otherwise principled people sell out, just about always they w...
Yeah, it's actually kinda sickening how so many gamers are willing to mobilize themselves for and turn defending corporations into a pseudo-profession. If only that passion could be diverted into something of substance, huh?
Consumer-based identity politics are the worse.
I'm probably going to run out of space.
I think we're somewhat at odds when it comes to hermeneutics in addition to some other things, and I'd say that what society 'is' and what it 'ought' to be are two different things, while diversity for the sake of itself that refuses to engage in necessary conflicts, political or otherwise, out of an inclination for peace and acceptance can't always be associated with the good. While you may be more nuanc...