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Podcast: New Books in Politics and Polemics
Episode: The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers
Description: It was billed as “the biggest event in the history of the terminally online.” A debate: socialism vs. capitalism. On your left side, the esteemed Marxist economist Richard Wolff. On your right, a StarCraft player-turned-online intellectual: Steven Bonnel II, better known as Destiny.But this debate didn’t take place on TV, or in a university debate club… it was on Twitch.tv. The online streaming platform that is mainly used for watching other people play video games.We dissect the debate, and its limitations. But more broadly, we ask, why are gamers becoming an emerging...