Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 87

The Sound of “Synthetic Fury”

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relationship (man uses the machine for pleasure and by choice instead of for work;
man spends money on it rather than making money for someone else; beating the
machine means beating the system which subordinates in the first place), and by
resisting or offending notions of “good” use of time and money. According to
Fiske, video games offer a means to nullify the conf