#75: Power Fantasies, Videogames and Ideology (ft. Jon Bailes)

We chat with Jon Bailes author of 'Ideology and the Virtual City', a book exploring modern society and the critical value of popular culture.

He describes how ‘neoliberal’ ideology in today’s societies dominates our economic, political and cultural ideals, with an entertaining exploration of narratives, characters and play structures in some of today’s most interesting videogames.

We discuss his four 'archetypes' - essentially a set of attitudes or behaviors that encapsulates attitudes we might have in real life as a response to neoliberalism: Hedonism, Cynicism, Escapism and Reformism.

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References:

Ideology and the Virtual City: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/ideology-virtual-city

Jon Bailes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBailes3

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