"Gaming at the Margins of Law or, Niko Bellic's (Critical) Theory of Ju" by Luis Gómez Romero
Thirty years ago, Étienne Balibar denounced the emergence of a mass of disposable human beings (for example, individuals who are permanently unemployed, immigrants, or members of disadvantaged ethnic groups) in advanced capitalist democracies. These individuals, according to Balibar, are contained in ghetto spaces through internal frontiers erected within the states by constituting the satisfaction of determinate levels of consumption as a condition to access full citizenship and the distribution of social goods it entails. Grand Theft Auto IV cunningly deploys its ludic narrative along such ...
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