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Reality is Radical: Queer, Avant-Garde, and Utopian Gaming
The Sussex Humanities Lab and the Sussex Centre for Sexual Dissidence are pleased to welcome leading critical game studies scholars Amanda Phillips and Bo Ruberg to explore the politics of contemporary games.Games themselves are a major cultural form, and the "ludic turn" in recent years has also seen game design thinking and critical play practices spill out into many areas of social and economic life. Meanwhile, a proliferation of tools and a vibrant indie design culture are democratizing game-making, and creating space for new ludic avant-gardes. What are the politics of contemporary gameplay and game-making? How might play and performativity offer pathways to radical futures? And what happens when the often rule-constituted realm of games collides with queer studies and queer activism, and with the desire to question so many of the dominant rules of reality?