Posts Tagged ‘Monopoly’
Just a quick post today on a recent revelation I had about Monopoly. In one of my earliest posts I wrote about Monopoly as a Parasite-Zombie-Hydra-Vampire-Cannibal and ended that post with the claim that Monopoly is “a shitty game”. Well now I’m not so sure. I may owe a big apology to Charles Darrow and [...]
In a sense, Monopoly is the ultimate postmodern game. In Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson identifies the postmodern era with “a new kind of flatness or depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense [in which] depth is replaced by surface, or by multiple surfaces.” Scratch beneath the surface and we might find that Grateful Dead-opoly is an identical game to Winnie-the-Pooh Monopoly, but to scratch beneath the surface is to misunderstand Monopoly: it is precisely the surface that matters.
