[Event] Angelo Careri reads Grand Theft Auto as an urban machine
Talks in Paris and Marseille launch the Immersion editor's French essay on crime and the city, a week before GTA VI arrives.
- When
- Thu., Nov. 12 (Paris) and Fri., Nov. 13, 2026 (Marseille).
- Where
- Bibliothèque Václav Havel, Paris; Zoème, Marseille.
Angelo Careri gives two talks this week on the book Grand Theft Auto: Crime et architecture: at the Bibliothèque Václav Havel in Paris on Nov. 12, and at Zoème, a gallery, publisher and bookshop in Marseille, on Nov. 13. The publisher's announcement promises more dates. The talks come a week before Grand Theft Auto VI releases on Nov. 19.
The book is a French-language essay from Façonnage Éditions, in stores since May. It reads the series' cities as urban machines and examines the links between crime, city space, capitalism and social performance, including roleplay servers and artists who treat the game world as raw material. The philosopher Mathieu Triclot, author of Philosophie des jeux vidéo, wrote the preface. Leonardo Magrelli, whose photobook West of Here was made inside Grand Theft Auto V, selected the images. The book costs 22 euros.
Careri is editor-in-chief of the French games magazine Immersion and co-leads the Game Art studio at ENSAD Paris. Killscreen has covered the series as a subject for philosophers and artists.
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