No Escape
This is a bit of a different post from me today, but it fits well with No Escape’s tagline: Digital culture and its discontent. I’m, uh, feeling discontent right now. For a couple reasons. This blog is about three things: KOSA, Project 2025, and this week’s indictment of 61 people by a Fulton Co, GA […]
Back in 2019, when the first rebooted Modern Warfare title came out, two top Infinity Ward devs looked a GameInformer reporter in the eye and said, “I don’t think it’s a political game.” You can hear the incredulousness in the reporter’s short reply: “Really?”
We need to be able to imagine that a better world is possible, and even more importantly, we need to be able to imagine what those better worlds might look like, and how we might get there.
Anarchism is a political philosophy that calls for the abolition of dominance hierarchies. You might hear this as “smash the state,” or “fuck capitalism, go home.” But the goal of anarchism is to arrive at a freer, more equitable world by eliminating the ability of anyone to claim dominance over anyone else and be seen as a legitimate holder of power. So, what does this have to do with video games?