Part1: An Introduction to Disco Elysium
1. Introduction to The World Politics of Disco Elysium 2. What Kind of Cop Are We, Detective? Community Engagement on r/DiscoElysium Bart
Part2: Disco Elysium and Late Capitalism
3. “I have holes in my brain” ? The Traumatic Memory of the Commune of Revachol
4. “Thought Cabinet”: Imagining Ludic Alternatives to Capitalist Realism
5. The Detective Dandy and the Marxist Hypothesis: Disco Elysium as Critique of the Millennial Left
Part3: World Order, Liberalism, and Security in Disco Elysium
6. A Real Kerfuffle: Sovereignty and Intervention Beyond the Pale in Disco Elysium 7. The EU and Disco Elysium ? Second-order Representations as Vessels of Criticism
8. Who Bears ‘La Responsabilite?’: The Objective Violence of Liberal Order in Disco Elysium 9. Imaginaries of Ontological (In)Security in Disco Elysium
Part4: Oppression and Liberation in Disco Elysium
10. “I don’t want to be this kind of animal anymore!”: Unthinking Policing in Disco Elysium 11. Vows of Blood and Flesh: The Aggrieved Entitlements of Fascist Ideology in Disco Elysium 12. Decomposing the Body Politic: Sick and Disabled Resistance in Disco Elysium 13. The Ecstasy of Ruin: Sartre, Euphoria, and the Pleasure of Undoing
Part5: Conclusions
14. Playing like: Disco Elysium and the making of IR subjects Afterword.