Robinson, N. orcid.org/0000-0003-2283-3022 (2025) Afterword. In: Castro, V. and Kiersey, N., (eds.) The World Politics of Disco Elysium. Taylor & Francis, Oxford, UK, pp. 240-251. ISBN: 978-1-032-58363-1.
Abstract
In 1993, the Le Diberder brothers’ book Qui a peur des jeux vidéo? declared video games the 10th art form—“a provocative proclamation for the time” (Wolf and Perron 2003, 8). Such a claim was subsequently and emphatically upheld by the French Minister of Culture in 2006, who declared video games a “form of artistic expression,” granting them tax breaks (NY Times, 06/11/2006). While it may appear incongruous to even question the artistic value of games over thirty years on, what is striking is that they still struggle for relative legitimacy and are seldom afforded the same standing as other art forms.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Vic Castro and Nicholas Kiersey; individual chapters, the contributors. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The World Politics of Disco Elysium on the 30th of June 2025, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781032620343 or http://www.crcpress.com/9781032620343. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2025 14:15 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2026 09:03 |
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