Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2023.htm
Start Date
8-6-2023 12:00 PM
End Date
8-6-2023 12:50 PM
Description
Gears of War is a series of video games born for the Xbox platform in 2006. These are set on a planet very similar to Earth and in approximately the same age as ours. As in the case of the ukronic tales, however, the political organization of the planet Sera (as the world of this narrative is called) is partially different from ours. Humanity on this planet has federated into a progressive political world government. There is no longer any internal enemy to humanity, but despite this society is managed in a highly organized and disciplined manner. From the depths of the soil, however, monstrous entities emerge, called the Locusts, which it turns out that they have always inhabited the heart of the planet. Between the emergence of these entities and the “descent into hell” to fight them, the world loses the distinction between what is below the surface (and which is obviously represented with any traditional infernal symbolism) and what is above. With this speech we want to propose a political interpretation of this fantastic narrative. If in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as well as in other science fiction narratives, the alien enemies represented what was external to Western society, but with this type of infernal representations we pass to the greatest fear of a globalized society, namely that the worst enemy lies in the depths of our unconscious.
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The Videogaming Hell of Gears of War as a Political Parable
Gears of War is a series of video games born for the Xbox platform in 2006. These are set on a planet very similar to Earth and in approximately the same age as ours. As in the case of the ukronic tales, however, the political organization of the planet Sera (as the world of this narrative is called) is partially different from ours. Humanity on this planet has federated into a progressive political world government. There is no longer any internal enemy to humanity, but despite this society is managed in a highly organized and disciplined manner. From the depths of the soil, however, monstrous entities emerge, called the Locusts, which it turns out that they have always inhabited the heart of the planet. Between the emergence of these entities and the “descent into hell” to fight them, the world loses the distinction between what is below the surface (and which is obviously represented with any traditional infernal symbolism) and what is above. With this speech we want to propose a political interpretation of this fantastic narrative. If in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as well as in other science fiction narratives, the alien enemies represented what was external to Western society, but with this type of infernal representations we pass to the greatest fear of a globalized society, namely that the worst enemy lies in the depths of our unconscious.
Comments
SESSION II
12:00 Noon—12:50 PM Eastern
11:00 AM—11:50 Central
10:00 AM—10:50 Mountain
9:00 AM—9:50 Pacific
4:00 PM—4:50 GMT