“Pseudo-subject” of the Desired Other?: The Construction of Player-Centred Pluralized Relationships from the Perspective of Modern Video Game Community
摘要: 随着网络技术的发展和数字资本主义的壮大,电子游戏正成为现代消费主义社会的热门商品。现代电子游戏社群作为电子游戏完成的关键一环,承载着以玩家为核心的复数化关系网络:其一,电子游戏社群将玩家与游戏本身紧密相连,即使玩家表现为欲望他者的虚拟的“伪主体”,社群仍承载着人-人(主体-主体)关系的双向互动;其二,在电子游戏大众化趋势下,数字资本主义交叉出与纯粹满足玩家游戏欲望不完全重合的游戏空间,进而利用电子游戏社群压榨玩家“欲望满足的剩余”;其三,电子游戏社群不仅凸显了开发者作为玩家-数字资本主义二元关系中既内又外的第三者的意义,还在玩家理解游戏叙事、体验游戏内容上,超越了电子游戏的总体性。从技术和资本批判视角思考电子游戏社群中玩家主体的新的存在可能,是对破除电子游戏与社群共同构成以规训玩家的“莫比乌斯环”的一次理论探索。
Abstract: With the development of network technology and the growth of digital capitalism, video games are becoming a popular commodity in modern consumerist societies. As a key part of the completion of video games, the modern video game community carries a pluralized relational network with the player at its core: firstly, the video game community closely connects the player to the game itself, and even though the player manifests himself as a virtual “pseudo-subject” who desires the other, the community still carries a two-way interaction of human-person (“subject-subject”) relational existence; secondly, under the trend of mass video game popularization, digital capitalism intersects with the game space that does not completely overlap with the pure satisfaction of the player’s desire for the game, and then uses video game communities to extract the player’s “desire-satisfying surplus”; thirdly, the video game community not only highlights the significance of the developer as a third party, both inside and outside the player-digital capitalism dichotomy, but also transcends the totality of video games in terms of the player’s understanding of game narratives and experience of game content. Reflecting on the new possibilities for the existence of the player-subject in video game community from a technological and capitalist critique is a theoretical exploration of the breaking of the Mobius loop that video games and community together constitute in order to discipline the players.
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