Gaming Under Biopolitical Sovereign Power

This article argues that a spatiotemporal approach to abjection in video games helps scholars understand how confronting the abject in gameplay maps onto biopolitical conditions of living and gaming under sovereign state power. By means of a slow reading of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, this essay...

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Main Author: Mike Piero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2021-09-01
Series:Eludamos
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/eludamos/article/view/6431