![]() (Nintendo EAD, 1985) that has nothing to do with the Mushroom Kingdom, its monarch, or her mustachioed savior - but rather concerns itself with the impact of the game on Japanese and North American techno-entertainment economies. One can imagine a thorough inquiry into the politics of Super Mario Bros. Because they're made in a time, in a place, and by people for an audience of players, the politics of games are inherent, even if they aren't expressed. The uncertain and unending conflict of "the political" emerges as the dominant mode of human activity and its meaning-making.Īll games, as products of culture and labor, have politics. ![]() People live together because of politics, despite their disagreements over the political. Politics, then, is something like the ground-level manifestation of higher-order, political antagonism. On the contrary, Mouffe defines "the political" as "the antagonistic dimension which is inherent to all human societies" (p.2). The word "politics," according to political theorist Chantal Mouffe (2013), "refers to the ensemble of practices, discourses and institutions that seeks to establish a certain order and to organize human coexistence" (p.3). ![]() There is a difference between having politics and being political. Keywords: Night in the Woods, Mark Fisher, Lovecraft, weird fiction, horror, close reading, capitalism, politics, queerness, hauntology Introduction: Night in the Woods as a Political Game I have always longed to be a part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water to return to the town as a stranger. Finally, it examines the game's eldritch-capital antagonist in order to characterize the outlook of the game's protagonists as resolutely hopeful and reparatively queer in the face of an outwardly meaningless cosmos. Next, it examines how eeriness pervades the playable and political environment of the gameworld. This article first examines how a pathological sense of weirdness is internalized by main character Mae. To make its case, this article draws from the critical vocabulary of theorist Mark Fisher, whose notions of "capitalist realism," (2009) "the weird" and "the eerie" (2016) serve to identify explicitly and categorically much of what the game in question represents implicitly and aesthetically. Following literary critic Irving Howe's (2002) notion of the "political novel," this article demonstrates that Night in the Woods exists as a rare and audacious interrogation of Capital and its deleterious fallout in the rural United States. This article presents a close reading of the videogame Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall, 2017). 7/10.Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Gods: Reading Night in the Woods through Mark Fisher by Patrick Fiorilli Abstract It does a fantastic job at meeting the crosshairs of horror and comedy without steering itself into too serious territory. All in all, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is a fun and energetic offering of late eighties teen comedy with a splash of vampire blood and some fantastic one-liners it's a ridiculous, alternate world fantasy, but a fun one at that. The presence of Paul Reubens and Donald Sutherland lend the film more credibility than it probably deserves, although Sutherland does feel somewhat out of place here regardless, you can't knock a film for having Donald Sutherland as a part of its cast. A young Luke Perry is the high school bad boy/hunk and looks the part probably more than he plays it, but his performance is fine. Whedon's script is humorous in the right places, and Swanson plays the spunky titular character with an appropriate pep. In a lot of ways, it feels like an eighties movie, akin to something "Fright Night" but far less sinister. I'll make it clear: this is definitely a corny flick, and Joss Whedon's script takes place in an alternate reality where vampires and Valley Girls can and do co-exist. Something of a cult film today, and the launching pad for a series of actors (including lead Kristy Swanson, and co-stars Hilary Swank and David Arquette)-as well as birthing the wildly popular series-"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is a heady brew of teen comedy and vampire splatter-lite. ![]() But when she finds herself responsible with the taking down bloodsucking demons from hell under the eye of a newfound guardian (Donald Sutherland), her extracurricular activities take a serious hit. girl who spends her free time shopping and socializing in the mall food court. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" follows sassy and unsuspecting cheerleader Buffy (Kristy Swanson), a simple L.A.
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