Citizen Sleeper: Value in a Precarious Future (Indie Game, 2022)

Hello and thank you for your patience on this episode! Today we are talking about precarity, how insecurity is a method of social control and most of all in a precarious world how do we find value and community? Using Citizen Sleeper as a guide we will think through these concepts and  I do hope that you enjoy!

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Time stamps:
2:34 - Outline
3:23 - Background on Citizen Sleeper
12:04 - Precarity and Citizen Sleeper
41:12 - Final thoughts on the Game
43:49 - Creative Prompt
45:19 - Outro

Citizen Sleeper
https://www.fellowtraveller.games/citizen-sleeper

---Playthrough----from Ghiira 
https://youtu.be/h9T4-xTPhk4?si=0e2RXM2g2D1JczwK

Jump over the Age
https://jumpovertheage.com/

Gareth's Lecture
https://youtu.be/r2b_M4a8SoQ?si=zN7j66rDWkHr5UiR

Bureau of Labor Statistics Apr. 2024
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Overview of Neoliberalism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoliberalism/
Reading on Precarity
https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/precarity
-Springvled, Niles. "Neoliberalism: Precarity and Precariousness" https://www.frameliteraryjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/frame30-2NielsSpringveld.pdf
Pierre Bourdieu
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Bourdieu
Judith Butler
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judith-Butler
Anna Tsing
https://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=atsing
https://magazine.tank.tv/tank/2019/04/anna-tsing

Chapters

• 2:34 Episode Outline
• 3:23 Background on Citizen Sleeper
• 12:04 Precarity and Citizen Sleeper
• 41:12 Final Thoughts
• 43:49 Creative Prompt
• 45:19 Outro