Cultural Self-Aggrandizement Has Us Playing Games of Oppression
In Playing Oppression, scholars Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson lay bare the colonialist origins of board games.
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Academic Gamers: Your Assistance with ‘Gaming Representation’ Please
You might care about the concepts raised in Gaming Representation, but you probably won’t be able to understand them.
Game Theory and Marx: ‘Narcos’ as a Capitalist Parable
Narcos depicts the narcotics industry as a form of capitalism run amok, an unending game motivating its central criminals.
Game Theory: 2 Steps From the Middle Ages
Game Theory’s 1988 release anticipated the alternative music explosion of the early '90s.
Game Theory: Blaze of Glory
Game Theory's nervy debut album gets to baffle another generation of listeners with this bulky reissue.
Awareness, Social Change, and ‘Critical Play’
In Critical Play, games scholar Mary Flanagan details the long history of games engaging with larger cultural issues and subverting exclusion