Neoliberalism in Fallout 4's Post-Apocalyptic World Shows How We Treat Money Like it Is Magic

Neoliberalism is a socio-economic model that exists everywhere, but what happens when it exists inside a media text that is set in a world that has been destroyed by nuclear war? Well, I go to town explaining what that's a thing and how it's a problem because lets be honest, we treat money like it's magical. Find ME and the podcast on socials: Twitter: @ACMOAPOD Instagram: @omaralleyne Vero: @omaralleyne Clubhouse: @omaralleyne Email: aculturemadeofalgorithms@gmail.com Music by Amine Maxwell: Lovely Shared under Creative Commons 3.0 licencing agreement. Sources: 4A Games (2010) Metro 2033 [Video Game]. THQ Banning-Lover, B. (2015 May 5). What ‘money’ means to people around the world. The Guardian. Berger, A. A. (2004). Semiotic analysis. Media analysis techniques. SAGE Publications. Bethesda Game Studios (2015) Fallout 4 [Console Video Game] Bethesda. Bolter, J, D., Grusin, R. (1999) Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press. Brown, W. (2015) Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. Zone Books. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt17kk9p8 Cuaron, A. (Director). (2006). Children of Men. [Film]. Universal Pictures. Duffy, B. E., Poell, T., & Nieborg, D. B. (2019). Platform Practices in the Cultural Industries: Creativity, Labor, and Citizenship. Social Media + Society. Fallout Wiki. (2015a). Pre-War money (Fallout 4). Fallout Wiki. (2015b). The Commonwealth. (Fallout 4). Fisher, M. (2009). Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? John Hunt Publishing. Frankenfield, J. (2019 July 14). Currency. Investopedia. Galobardes, B., Shaw, M. Lawlor, D., Lynch, J. W., Smith, G.D. (2006). Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1). Journal of Epidemiol Community Health. (60) 7-12. Gebauer, G. Wulf, C. Reneau, D. (1996) Mimesis Culture-Art-Society. University of California Press. Jameson, F. (1994). The Seeds of Time. Colombia University Press. Luton, W. (2018 November 22). The Principles of Building A Game Economy. Department of Play. Marx, K. (1867) Capital: Volume One. (Schultz, B and Blunden, A, Trans.) Marxists.org. Maslow, A.H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review. 50 (4): 370–396. doi:10.1037/h0054346 Miller, G. (Director). (2015). Mad Max: Fury Road. [Film]. Warner Bros. Pictures. Osterfeld, D. (1988 November 1). Socialism and Incentives. Foundation for Economic Education. Saussure, F. (1966). A course in general linguistics (W. Baskin, Trans.). McGraw-Hill. Wolff, R. (2001, April). Capitalist hegemony and contesting concepts of class. [Paper presentation] Socialist Scholars Union, New York. Zizek, S. (1989). The Sublime Object of Ideology. Verso Books

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