The un-scene affects of on-demand access to war

The politics of consuming war: video games, the military-entertainment complex and the spectacle of violence

“…Evans and Giroux see the most advanced form of this process developing in the United States: "Absorbed in privatized orbits of consumption, commodification, and display, Americans in particular vicariously participate in the pleasures of consumer culture, relentlessly entertained by the spectacle of violence" (2015, p. 201). As Eken (2019) suggests, this is a state that is supported by the US political and military establishment. Moreover, as Evans and Giroux (2015) argue, in the United States, the military occupies a position of power and dominance in the social imagination.…”

Exploring the potential of the popular culture and world politics agenda: actors, artefacts and the everyday

“…Scholars have found world politics in popular cultural sites far and wide: in video games (see, for example, Auchter 2016;Bos 2015;Eken 2016;and Robinson 2015), graphic novels (see, for example, Dittmer 2005Dittmer , 2013Dittmer , 2015 and internet memes (Särmä 2012(Särmä , 2015Brennan 2015;Yao 2016); and in advertisements (see, for example, Åhäll 2015; Jackson 2016) and political cartoons (Hansen 2011). Music and sound (see, for example, Davies and Franklin 2015;Franklin [ed.]…”

How geopolitical becomes personal: Method acting, war films and affect

“…Visuality and emotions have become the new fascinations of IR scholarship in the last two decades (Åhäll and Gregory, 2015; Anderson, 2011; Blanchette, 2014; Clément and Sangar, 2018; Crawford, 2000; Eken, 2016; Eroukhmanoff and Fazendeiro, 2018; Hast, 2018; Hutchison and Bleiker, 2014; Koschut, 2017; MacDonald, Hughes and Dodds 2010; Mercer, 2014; Solomon, 2015). While offering new dimensions to understand the ways in which world politics operate, they bring about new theoretical and methodological problems as well.…”