Comment le jeu vidéo pense l’expérience du milieu urbain

Abstract

Spatial dimension of video game was discussed extensively within game studies, but the representation of the experience of places and milieus remains relatively unexplored so far. Mesocriticism, a perspective that account for the aforementioned experience in video games will be described in this paper. Through an analysis of the problematic articulation between non-places and local socialities of the urban milieu of Dead Rising 3 and the alternative experience of this milieu, it will be shown how video games, as simulations of a mode of inhabiting, propose a cartography of the Self, and therefore a better comprehension of our being-in-the-world.

Keywords

• Herméneutique
• jeux vidéo
• mésocritique
• mésologie
• milieu
• non-lieu