1st Edition
The World Politics of Disco Elysium
Part 1: An Introduction to Disco Elysium
1. Introduction to The World Politics of Disco Elysium
Nicholas Kiersey & Vic Castro
2. What Kind of Cop Are We, Detective? community Engagement on r/DiscoElysium
Bart Gabriel
Part 2: Disco Elysium and Late Capitalism
3. “I have holes in my brain” – The Traumatic Memory of the Commune of Revachol
Arthur Duhé
4. “Thought Cabinet”: Imagining Ludic Alternatives to Capitalist Realism
Umut Mert Gürses
5. The Detective Dandy and the Marxist Hypothesis: Disco Elysium as Critique of the Millennial Left
Nicholas Kiersey and Angel Vazquez
Part 3: World Order, Liberalism, and Security in Disco Elysium
6. A Real Kerfuffle: Sovereignty and Intervention Beyond the Pale in Disco Elysium
James Gilley
7. The EU and Disco Elysium – Second-order Representations as Vessels of Criticism
Teemu T. Rantanen
8. Who Bears ‘La Responsabilité?’: The Objective Violence of Liberal Order in Disco Elysium
Guillaume Lacombe-Kishibe
9. Imaginaries of Ontological (In)Security in Disco Elysium
Juha A. Vuori
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
Chris Rossdale
11. Vows of Blööd and Flesh: The Aggrieved Entitlements of Fascist Ideology in Disco Elysium
Pekka M. Kolehmainen
12. Decomposing the Body Politic: Sick and Disabled Resistance in Disco Elysium
Vic Castro
13. The Ecstasy of Ruin: Sartre, Euphoria, and the Pleasure of Undoing
Valentina Massone
Part 5: Conclusions
Chapter 14. Playing like: Disco Elysium and the making of IR subjects
Felix Ciută
Afterword: Calling IR to the disco floor
Nick Robinson
Biography
Vic 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.
