What is it about?

How the politics of pre-emption and its related discourses can be read through the narratives and gameplay of first person shooter video games.

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Why is it important?

Because videogames are an important media that in many ways surpasses the representational abilities of films and television. Videogames model experiences and processes of the real world and as such be formative and powerful interpellative mechanism for neoliberal subjectivity and post 9/11 modalities of sovereignty

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Its a very cool article. Please read.

Professor Peter Mantello
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

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This page is a summary of: Military Shooter Video Games and the Ontopolitics of Derivative Wars and Arms Culture, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, March 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12184.
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