Bunch of essays on Metal Gear Solid. Nothing crazy but enjoyable to read.
This is a world where reasonable assumptions about anybody or anything are eventually all rendered moot, owing to increasingly complex information and technology. It represents the end of knowledge, the type of postmodern, perpetually self-reconfiguring society described in 1979 by French historian Michel Foucault, whereby new versions of understanding–new discourses–simply transpose old, without any of them ever being proven objectively true or false. In Foucaultian postmodernity, all truth is relative, disembedded from traditional, face-to-face means of communication, individuals are free to credibly distribute their versions of knowledge to anyone and everyone, creating a world where, if enough people share and are convinced of a discourse, that discourse is assimilated into everybody's reality. Here, the once-local members of FOXHOUND have gone rogue; soldiers without a war, their actions have become singular and apolitical, and they've turned on their countrymen.
