Videogames have long embodied fantasies of technological progress. But in the context of the climate emergency critics have begun to ask how games can address ecological frailty and the foreclosure of the future. David Kanaga’s Oikospiel: Book I offers one answer to this question. Using second-hand models and assets—some bought from ‘asset stores’, others poached from canonical classics like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo EAD, 1998)—the game draws links between ecological devastation, the exploitation of gameworkers, the vicissitudes of intellectual property law, and the rapacity of contemporary capitalism. For Kanaga, the rise of movements like Gamergate and the alt-right must be understood in relation to mounting levels of inequality and exploitation under neoliberal capitalism, the failure of the emancipatory promise of the internet, and the increasingly inescapable reality of climate breakdown.

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Powering Down: Oikospiel: Book I (Kanaga, 2017)

  • Rob Gallagher

摘要

Videogames have long embodied fantasies of technological progress. But in the context of the climate emergency critics have begun to ask how games can address ecological frailty and the foreclosure of the future. David Kanaga’s Oikospiel: Book I offers one answer to this question. Using second-hand models and assets—some bought from ‘asset stores’, others poached from canonical classics like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo EAD, 1998)—the game draws links between ecological devastation, the exploitation of gameworkers, the vicissitudes of intellectual property law, and the rapacity of contemporary capitalism. For Kanaga, the rise of movements like Gamergate and the alt-right must be understood in relation to mounting levels of inequality and exploitation under neoliberal capitalism, the failure of the emancipatory promise of the internet, and the increasingly inescapable reality of climate breakdown.