Pfister, Eugen (2022). "Wie lernt man die Welt am besten kennen? Man macht sie sich untertan": Zur Ideengeschichte von Herrschaft in digitalen Spielen Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 33(2), pp. 98-109. Studien Verlag 10.25365/oezg-2022-33-2-6
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The history of ideas of the late twentieth and early twenty-fist centuries requires to take into account new forms of media expression such as video games. Video games have been an integral part of our entertainment culture for more than 40 years and are an international billion dollar business. Questions like “What is power? What does justice mean in politics? Who should govern whom?” are not only encountered in political essays and parliamentary debates. In order to understand how people have thought about domination in concrete societies over the past 40 years, we also have to examine the games that were played. Games cannot be imagined as an element of our societies and cultures independently of them; they are spaces of discourse where statements are constructed and communicated, and political ideas can be tested and applied in a playful way. As a medium, they thus provide a necessary space of communication within our highly complex societies, and as models of abstraction they also offer very specific access to a (very specific?) political reality.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute of Design Research Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute of Design Research > Design and Rhetoric |
Name: |
Pfister, Eugen 0000-0003-3422-4697 |
ISSN: |
1016-765X |
Publisher: |
Studien Verlag |
Language: |
German |
Submitter: |
Veronica Antonucci |
Date Deposited: |
27 Sep 2023 11:27 |
Last Modified: |
27 Sep 2023 11:27 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.25365/oezg-2022-33-2-6 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
history of ideas, video games, contemporary history, cultural history |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.20030 |
URI: |
https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20030 |
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