Virtuous, virtual, but not visceral: (dis)embodied viewing in military-themed videogames

The dominant visual representation strategies of warfare through the virtual bodies of military-themed first-person shooter videogames obscures the corporeal embodied experiences of warzones. These games typically reinforce certain representational schema in which only certain kinds of bodies are visible. This article argues that the multi-million dollar videogame industry is intimately connected to institutional practices of war-making in the global order, and that it is crucial to pay attention to the embodied consequences of such a relationship