Jon Bailes, Zero Books, 2019
Ideology and the Virtual City is an exploration of modern society and the critical value of popular culture. Through an entertaining analysis of some of today’s most interesting video games, it details how neoliberal thinking dominates our political and cultural ideals.
The book takes readers into a series of simulated urban environments that reveal hidden social conflicts and outlandish power fantasies. It also examines how interactive entertainment can help us understand our relationship to neoliberal ‘common sense’. Or how we absorb its assumptions, and how we might question them.
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“An instant classic for everyone who wants to understand not just games but our reality itself.” – Slavoj Žižek
“A timely and important book.” – Alfie Bown, author of The PlayStation Dreamworld