January 1977
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... While not discounting individual experiences of coziness and the value it may have as a coping mechanism, I speculate that cozy games do not challenge the capitalist status quo, but rather act as an ideological pressure relief valve for life under capitalism. Cozy games can thus be encompassed in what Richard Dyer (2005) calls "utopian entertainment", those escapist media forms deploying specific affective codes to respond to societal inadequacies, from within the same capitalist matrix responsible for those inadequacies in the first place. ...
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January 1977