Towards a Theory of the Playgorm
This highly speculative paper proposes the term playgrom to identify an idiom of playfully cruel fascistic violence that emerges from, is shaped by, and also exceeds gamified financialized capitalism. Like the antisemitic pogroms of late-Tsarist Russia and subsequent acts of racist terrorism there...
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| Main Author: | Max Haiven |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Media Theory |
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| Online Access: | https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/1166 |
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