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Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies And Neoliberalism Kindle Edition

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'insanely readable...an instant classic for everyone who wants to understand not just games but our reality itself.' Slavoj Zizek

Ideology and the Virtual City is an exploration of modern society and the critical value of popular culture. It combines a prescient social theory that describes how ‘neoliberal’ ideology in today’s societies dominates our economic, political and cultural ideals, with an entertaining exploration of narratives, characters and play structures in some of today’s most interesting videogames. The book takes readers into a range of simulated urban environments that symbolise the hidden antagonisms of social life and create outlandish resolutions through their power fantasies. Interactive entertainment can help us understand the ways in which people relate to a modern ‘common sense’ neoliberal background, in terms of absorbing assumptions, and questioning them.

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Jon Bailes is an independent researcher and writer whose work focuses on ideology, neoliberalism and popular culture. He has a PhD in European Studies from University college London. His publications include Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism (Pluto, 2013) (co-authored with Cihan Aksan), plus numerous academic journal essays and online articles. He co-runs stateofnatureblog.com, a website featuring interviews with academics on social and political theory.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07WG3WM57
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zero Books (September 27, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 27, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 730 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 107 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,176,478 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,641 in Video & Electronic Games
- #3,842 in Popular Culture
- #5,979 in Ideologies & Doctrines

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Jon Bailes is an author from the UK who writes extensively about ideology, neoliberalism and popular culture. He has a PhD in European Studies from University college London, has published numerous academic journal articles, and co-runs stateofnatureblog.com, a website featuring interviews with social and political theorists. He is also a freelance video game critic, writing reviews and commentaries for The Guardian, Edge, Kotaku UK, Unwinnable, Wireframe magazine and others.