Politics by Other Means : Post-Digital Gameplay in Hong Kong

Hoyng, Rolien Susanne (2017) Politics by Other Means : Post-Digital Gameplay in Hong Kong. Javnost - The Public, 24 (3). pp. 284-299. ISSN 1318-3222

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Abstract

This article considers play in relation to the governance of creativity as well as emerging modes of dissent in Hong Kong. Drawing from post-digital game studies and radical contextualism, the article considers play in three everyday settings, each of which articulates different relations between the material affordances of software, embodied capabilities and the rationalities of institutional macropolitics. In doing so, I aim to explore play as dissent in a context where play is instrumentalised for the biopolitics of the “creative” economy, yet where it is neither connected to “free” expression and performance nor guaranteed of liberal protections. I argue that creativity in Hong Kong is not constitutive—be it of economic assets or a “free” society—but constituted. That is to say, creativity is normalised, trained, excluded, repressed and potentially criminalised. This requires rethinking prevailing universalisms regarding politics as play and creative public performance.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Javnost - The Public
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Research Output Funding/yes_externally_funded
Subjects:
?? digital gamesdigital labourcreativitybiopoliticshong kongdissentyes - externally fundedcommunication ??
ID Code:
188972
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Deposited On:
21 Mar 2023 10:25
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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15 Jul 2024 23:39