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650. THE WORLD POLITICS OF DISCO ELYSIUM

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Cover of The World Politics of Disco Elysium, edited by Vic Castro and Nicholas Kiersey. The design features an abstract, wireframe illustration of a city skyline in white against an orange gradient background. The title appears in bold black text on a white horizontal bar, with the Popular Culture and World Politics series label above it. The Routledge logo is in the lower right corner. The World Politics of Disco Elysium analyses 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.
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Thank you, Tom!
May 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM