Disco Elysium Co-Creator Talks ZA/UM Losing With the System
- “it doesn’t make sense to be offensive against the current workers of the company. It is unlikely to change their positions. The managers have a way of making people trust them.” ⤴️
- “Why should we get to make a successful critique of capital in a world of suffering, and not suffer for it**?**” ⤴️
- “company that grew out of a collective” ⤴️
- “The avant-garde idealists had to sign a pact with the devil in order to allow themselves the creative freedom to match their ambitions.” ⤴️
- “sometimes the harbinger of destruction is… success.” ⤴️
- “Criticism of capital strengthens capital” ⤴️
- “anti-systemic actions are eventually inhibited by the system, reentering, and reinforcing it.” ⤴️
- “ZA/UM was entitled to make such a decision. Everyone is entitled to make dumb moves, it seems.” ⤴️
- “artistic vision doesn’t permanently belong to its author, especially once it starts wearing a suit.” ⤴️
- “the whole multi-vector, corporate activity of ZA/UM looks kind of corrupt once you realize that the people who constitute its soul have, let’s face it, been kicked out from the office.” ⤴️
- “The trio simply became inconvenient for ZA/UM at one point. They embodied communist and Marxist attitudes” ⤴️
- “Luiga admitted that the ZA/UM collective was in and of itself a kind of excess and an act of rebellion, because it was formed in a country where being an artist isn’t all that easy – it seemingly is more a form of “civil activism” rather than tangible building of culture.” ⤴️
- “it is problematic for people who want to earn money without fear of lawsuits and the stability of industry arrangements and media cooperation. Calculation. Pragmatism. Rejection of sentimentality. These are the components of capitalism.” ⤴️
- “I am writing about this whole affair because for me, it’s an example symptomatic of the gaming industry.” ⤴️