Putting Society in the Hotseat: A Videogame Review of Frostpunk, directed by Michał Drozdowski, 11 Bit Studios, 2018

Our discourse is still blighted by what scholars call “environmental determinism” – the idea that the physical environment determines the nature and course of human societies. Such thinking has been used repeatedly to construct, justify, and naturalise racial hierarchies (Livingstone 2012). It has also been used to licence interventionist policies in both traditional and newerContinue reading “Putting Society in the Hotseat: A Videogame Review of Frostpunk, directed by Michał Drozdowski, 11 Bit Studios, 2018”