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Political Computer Games (No2) Bioshock
Computer games have a habit of featuring fictional utopias that have gone horribly wrong, most probably because it gives gamers a great excuse to run around shooting things. Bioshock’s underwater city of Rapture is one of the best examples of this and is based quite explicitly … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Andrew Ryan, art-deco, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite, collectivism, computer games, distopia, Fritz Lang, George Orwell, manifest destiny, Matthew Ashton, media, Metropolis, New Deal, Nottingham Trent University, Objectivism, political games, politics, Roosevelt, Russian revolution, The Fountainhead, utopia, video games
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