Huizinga regards games as a free,truly autonomous field of activity and the birthplace of all human culture.Inheriting Huizinga's game theory legacy,the Situationist International endows games with a revolutionary spirit that contains perfect order.However,the issues related to games should be studied from the perspective of realistic conditions and relations of production.Against the background of rapid development of digital capitalism,games have already allied with capital-ism,forming a sort of"Ludo capitalism"discussed in this article.Ludo capitalism is not a conceptu-al invention.From the era of single-player games in the form of simple commodity circulation,to the era of rent games participating in land cultivation in a living organic form,and again to the era of consumer games with the illusion of"lifetime free use"that inevitably encounter false demands in a consumer society,the characteristics of ludo capitalism are obvious.This article points out that the political,economic critique of ludo capitalism mainly focuses on the exchange magic cast by ludo capitalism on people's social capital,the exploitation of free leisure time through the dehumanized ghost of artificial intelligence,and the ideological issues in the process of game consumption.
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政治经济学/游戏资本主义/游戏化生存/电子游戏
Key words
Political economy/Ludo capitalism/Gamified survival/Electronic games
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