Tag Archives: call of duty video game

going rogue

The language of violence. A poetry of nihilism?  “When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.” – Elie Weisel Violence … Continue reading

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wmd home edition

found. Just those items we need. Culture codes these types of good differently today, in the form of particularly video games such as Call of Duty, which in effect, are recruitment tools and cultural moral suasion to militarism, but the … Continue reading

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war games: virtual hero

What me worry? The country is safe. The anarchist threat has been rebuffed. The virtual vigilantes ensure that the sun will always rise on America. …”The latest ‘Call of Duty” video game set a first-day sales record  of over $400million … Continue reading

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narratives of the nameless: remember to forget

Constantly changing traditions and a constantly changing confrontation and relationship with death. Does remembrance amount to a merely symbolic gesture of observing a few moments silence,laying a wreath at these tombs of the nameless, which is actually a kind of … Continue reading

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