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A Precarious Game

- The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
Af: Ergin Bulut Engelsk Paperback

A Precarious Game

- The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
Af: Ergin Bulut Engelsk Paperback
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A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South.

A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives.

Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

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A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South.

A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives.

Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 222
ISBN-13: 9781501746536
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1501746537
Kategori: Arbejdsforhold, sundhed og sikkerhed
Udg. Dato: 15 mar 2020
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 mar 2020
Forfatter(e): Ergin Bulut
Forfatter(e) Ergin Bulut

Kategori Arbejdsforhold, sundhed og sikkerhed

ISBN-13 9781501746536

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 222

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 15 mar 2020

Oplagsdato 15 mar 2020

Forlag Cornell University Press