Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 on November 13, 2001. It is the fourth Metal Gear game written and directed by Hideo Kojima.
In 2018, Adrian Mróz published a paper in the academic journal Kultura i Historia, where the "idea of Selection for Societal Sanity" from the game is "applied into a philosophical framework based on select concepts from Bernard Stiegler's writing and incorporating them with current events such as post-truth or fake news in order to explore the role of techne and filtration within social organizations and individual psyches." He notes that, despite being released in an era of neoliberal dominance, the game's themes resonate with current affairs in the late 2010s, such as post-truth, the collapse of political correctness, cognitive dissonance, and "the problem of filtering within a society flooded by information." IGN said its "fourth-wall-obliterating final act posed a number of terrifying questions about the overload of data in the information age, and how technology has led to an increasingly shaky definition" of "reality," and has drawn comparisons to deep fakes, machine learning, and information warfare.
