The event was organized thanks to support from the EHU Department of Social Sciences. The EHU Media Center provided invaluable assistance. The Computer Games Research Laboratory (LIKI) at the Research Center for Mediaphilosophy (Saint Petersburg) was the partner of the event. The laboratory was represented by four speakers, including program speakers Konstantin Ocheretyany and Alina Latypova. The second day of the conference, held in English, began with a speech by Liam Mitchell — Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Trent (Canada), and the author of the book “Ludopolitics: Videogames against Control” (2018).
In addition to the traditional topics of violent games, the participants discussed and analyzed the problem of management and control, free will and initiative, violence and exploitation from the point of view of the media theory, game design, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and law.
