PAUSE: Jay-Z and Kanye West let crowds do the talking. Will videogames do the same?
video We live in an age of riot porn. Slogans like Occupy or the 99% only tickle a long-growing dissatisfaction with the socio-political apparatus that can change labels from election to election but never seems to better the circumstances of anyone’s lives. Raw depictions of violence in times like
We live in an age of riot porn. Slogans like Occupy or the 99% only tickle a long-growing dissatisfaction with the socio-political apparatus that can change labels from election to election but never seems to better the circumstances of anyone’s lives. Raw depictions of violence in times like these have a special resonance, like Marlon Brando in The Wild One, who, when asked what he was rebelling against, replied “What do you got?”
The new Jay-Z and Kanye West video for “No Church in the Wild,” resounds with this sentiment, a 5 minute slow-motion romance with violent confrontation between the black-suited authorities and impoverished groups of mostly young men. The Dark Knight Rises also played this note in an early trailer, showing Batman trying to keep order in a city where the citizens themselves have begun revolting. How long before we see videogame riot porn? Will it look anything like this?
