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Vega de Santiago, Denisse (2018)

The Gamified Society and its Aesthetic Emancipation

Master thesis | Arts and Culture (MA)
This thesis analyses the increasing gamification of our present-day global capitalistic societies. It explores the ways gamification, through the production of ‘playbor’, the hybridization of play and work, is shaping a new system of social domination executed through the subjection of its individuals. It proposes that a disengaged and decelerated aesthetic experience of contemporary art can function as an alternative process of subjection which, in turn, can help to counteract our increasing gamified and self-exploitative subjections.
Gamification
Playbor
Processes of subjection
Emancipatory politics
Aesthetic experiences
Gabriel Orozco
Bill Viola
Author
Vega de Santiago, Denisse
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Contemporary Art in a Global Perspective
Supervisors
Zwijnenberg, Rob
ECTS Credits
20
Language
en