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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) , Nicholas Kiersey (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.670kg ISBN: 9781032583631ISBN 10: 1032583630 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 30 June 2025 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 1: An Introduction to Disco Elysium 1. Introduction to The World Politics of Disco Elysium 2. What Kind of Cop Are We, Detective? Community Engagement on r/DiscoElysium Bart Part 2: Disco Elysium and Late Capitalism 3. “I have holes in my brain” – The Traumatic Memory of the Commune of Revachol 4. “Thought Cabinet”: Imagining Ludic Alternatives to Capitalist Realism 5. The Detective Dandy and the Marxist Hypothesis: Disco Elysium as Critique of the Millennial Left Part 3: World Order, Liberalism, and Security in Disco Elysium 6. A Real Kerfuffle: Sovereignty and Intervention Beyond the Pale in Disco Elysium 7. The EU and Disco Elysium – Second-order Representations as Vessels of Criticism 8. Who Bears ‘La Responsabilité?’: The Objective Violence of Liberal Order in Disco Elysium 9. Imaginaries of Ontological (In)Security in Disco Elysium Part 4: Oppression and Liberation in Disco Elysium 10. “I don’t want to be this kind of animal anymore!”: Unthinking Policing in Disco Elysium 11. Vows of Blööd and Flesh: The Aggrieved Entitlements of Fascist Ideology in Disco Elysium 12. Decomposing the Body Politic: Sick and Disabled Resistance in Disco Elysium 13. The Ecstasy of Ruin: Sartre, Euphoria, and the Pleasure of Undoing Part 5: Conclusions 14. Playing like: Disco Elysium and the making of IR subjects Afterword. Calling IR to the disco floorReviewsAuthor InformationVic Castro is an independent scholar with a PhD in political science (2024) from the University of Copenhagen. Their work has been published in journals including Security Dialogue and European Journal of International Security. They are a former Communications Officer for the STAIR section of ISA. Nicholas Kiersey is Professor of Political Science at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research addresses austerity, biopolitics and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist state. He is currently working on a book about socialist governmentality and the cultural political economy of the end of capitalism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |