The World Politics of Disco Elysium (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Castro, Vic; Kiersey, Nicholas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The World Politics of Disco Elysium analyzes the distinctive political claims and original arguments on a wide range of international political issues of the highly-acclaimed Marxist video game Disco Elysium (2019), which takes place in a speculative fictional world anchored in a post-Soviet Estonian perspective.

Disco Elysium (2019) has been repeatedly acclaimed as one of the best video games of all time. This detective role-playing game unfolds in a city ruined by a failed communist revolution and occupied by a foreign coalition. Furthering recent work in International Relations and popular culture, this book claims that the "cognitive estrangement" of speculative fiction can produce theoretical and political novelty, beyond merely reflecting existing political dynamics. By placing a metaphor for the Estonian capital Tallinn at the centre of a world, Disco Elysium produces an estranged Estonian perspective on world politics that challenges dominant Anglo-American views of International Relations, while also undermining the opposition between a coherent West and a colonized Rest. The contributors, from International Relations and Cultural Studies, discuss the game's claims on topics such as capitalism, (neo)liberalism, foreign intervention, law enforcement, fascism, colonialism, gender, disability, violence, memory, revolutionary politics, the European Union, political realism and international security.

The World Politics of Disco Elysium will be of great interest to students and scholars researching the politics of popular culture, post-Soviet politics, non-Western International Relations, as well as game studies and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040395523
• Artikelnr.: 74400639

Autorenporträt

Vic Castro is an independent scholar with a PhD in political science (2024) from the University of Copenhagen. Their work has been published in journals including Security Dialogue and European Journal of International Security. They are a former Communications Officer for the STAIR section of ISA. Nicholas Kiersey is Professor of Political Science at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research addresses austerity, biopolitics and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist state. He is currently working on a book about socialist governmentality and the cultural political economy of the end of capitalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: An Introduction to Disco Elysium 1. Introduction to The World
Politics of Disco Elysium 2. What Kind of Cop Are We, Detective? Community
Engagement on r/DiscoElysium Bart Part 2: Disco Elysium and Late Capitalism
3. "I have holes in my brain" - The Traumatic Memory of the Commune of
Revachol 4. "Thought Cabinet": Imagining Ludic Alternatives to Capitalist
Realism 5. The Detective Dandy and the Marxist Hypothesis: Disco Elysium
as Critique of the Millennial Left Part 3: World Order, Liberalism, and
Security in Disco Elysium 6. A Real Kerfuffle: Sovereignty and Intervention
Beyond the Pale in Disco Elysium 7. The EU and Disco Elysium - Second-order
Representations as Vessels of Criticism 8. Who Bears 'La Responsabilité?':
The Objective Violence of Liberal Order in Disco Elysium 9. Imaginaries of
Ontological (In)Security in Disco Elysium Part 4: Oppression and Liberation
in Disco Elysium 10. "I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore!":
Unthinking Policing in Disco Elysium 11. Vows of Blööd and Flesh: The
Aggrieved Entitlements of Fascist Ideology in Disco Elysium 12. Decomposing
the Body Politic: Sick and Disabled Resistance in Disco Elysium 13. The
Ecstasy of Ruin: Sartre, Euphoria, and the Pleasure of Undoing Part 5:
Conclusions 14. Playing like: Disco Elysium and the making of IR subjects
Afterword.