"The World Politics Of Disco Elysium | Politics

The World Politics of Disco Elysium analyzes 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. The World Politics of Disco Elysium will be of great interest to students and scholars researching the politics of popular culture post-Soviet politics non-Western International Relations as well as game studies and cultural studies.|The World Politics of Disco Elysium | Politics