Citizen Sleeper 2 and the Queer Art of Failure

Описание: We crave failure, or at least the chance of it. Why?

00:00 - You crave failure
01:39 - Citizen Sleeper’s ideas of failure
06:46 - We fear failure
09:29 - The Paradox of Failure
12:19 - The queer art of failure
14:48 - CW: Homophobia
17:22 - How Citizen Sleeper 2 uses failure
22:15 - Who gets to fail?
25:33 - The risk of making games
30:29 - Failing the contract in Citizen Sleeper 2
34:18 - Why we crave failure

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Research sources:
The Art of Failure, Juul - https://mitpress.mit.edu/978026252995...
The Queer Art of Failure, Halberstam - https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-queer-...
Queer Games Studies, Ruberg and Shaw - https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517900...
No Fun: The Queer Potential of Video Games that Annoy, Anger, Disappoint, Sadden, and Hurt, Ruberg - https://ourglasslake.com/wp-content/u...

Music:
Signalchaser, Citizen Sleeper 2, Amos Roddy -    • Signalchaser  
Suncatchers, Citizen Sleeper 2, Amos Roddy -    • Suncatchers  

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