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Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games Resumen del Editor

Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play.

Video games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in revenue and in global reach. On the surface, games do not appear ideological, nor are they categorized as national products. Instead, they seem to reflect the open and uncontaminated reputation of information technology.

Video games are undeniably imperial products. Their very existence has been conditioned upon the spread of militarized technology, the exploitation of already-existing labor and racial hierarchies in their manufacture, and the utopian promises of digital technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today: The open world empire, formed through the routes of information technology and the violences of drone combat, unending war, and overseas massacres that occur with little scandal or protest.

Though often presented as purely technological feats, video games are also artistic projects, and as such, they allow us an understanding of how war and imperial violence proceed under signs of openness, transparency, and digital utopia. But the video game, as Christopher B. Patterson argues, is also an inherently Asian commodity: Its hardware is assembled in Asia; its most talented e-sports players are of Asian origin; Nintendo, Sony, and Sega have defined and dominated the genre. Games draw on established discourses of Asia to provide an “Asiatic” space, a playful sphere of racial otherness that straddles notions of the queer, the exotic, the bizarre, and the erotic. Thinking through games like Overwatch, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Shenmue II, and Alien: Isolation, Patterson reads against empire by playing games erotically, as players do - seeing games as Asiatic playthings that afford new passions, pleasures, desires, and attachments.

©2020 Christopher Patterson (P)2021 Christopher Patterson
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    The New Mutants Audiolibro Por Ramzi Fawaz arte de portada
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    Surveillance Cinema Audiolibro Por Catherine Zimmer arte de portada
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    Modernity's Ear Audiolibro Por Roshanak Kheshti arte de portada
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    Looking for Leroy Audiolibro Por Mark Anthony Neal arte de portada
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    From Bombay to Bollywood Audiolibro Por Aswin Punathambekar arte de portada
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    Restricted Access Audiolibro Por Elizabeth Ellcessor arte de portada
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    Social Media Entertainment Audiolibro Por Stuart Cunningham arte de portada
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    A Race So Different Audiolibro Por Joshua Chambers- Letson arte de portada
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    Puro Arte Audiolibro Por Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns arte de portada
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    Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Audiolibro Por Alexis Lothian arte de portada

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    Media Franchising Audiolibro Por Derek Johnson arte de portada
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    Your Ad Here Audiolibro Por Michael Serazio arte de portada
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    The Dark Fantastic Audiolibro Por Ebony Elizabeth Thomas arte de portada
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    Playing to the Crowd Audiolibro Por Nancy K. Baym arte de portada
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    Spreadable Media Audiolibro Por Henry Jenkins arte de portada
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    Video Games Have Always Been Queer Audiolibro Por Bonnie Ruberg arte de portada
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    The Sonic Color Line Audiolibro Por Jennifer Lynn Stoever arte de portada
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    Diversión: Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America Audiolibro Por Albert Sergio Laguna arte de portada
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    More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise Audiolibro Por Bob Rehak arte de portada

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    Open TV Audiolibro Por Aymar Jean Christian arte de portada
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