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Universidad de Murcia. Departamento de Filología Inglesa
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- PublicationOpen AccessPush, press, become: tactility linked to identity configurations in video games(UOC-RACO, 2020-01) Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco; Filología InglesaCultural Studies and Game Studies analyses of video games often pay attention to the rules that articulate these media texts, the computer code used to write these games, and the visual and aural components utilised to represent game worlds and, sometimes, tell stories. All of these elements have a definite impact on the ways ideology is produced and reproduced by video games and, yet, the tactile interactions required to play games are often forgotten. This article highlights the importance of tactility when analysing identity discourses present in video games and expands forms of understanding representation beyond visual and sound-based components.
- PublicationOpen AccessUnbound queer time in literature, cinema, and video games(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025) Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco; Encarnación Pinedo, Estíbaliz; Filología InglesaUnbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of time to determine us but chooses to queer time and turn it into an ally of unbound forms of understanding identities. Through the analysis of different media—literature, cinema, and video games—the chapters revolve around three key ideas: that there are inherently queer styles of using and dealing with time and temporality in culture; that the critical rediscovery of canonical texts and the analysis of largely ignored queer texts and authors allow for a better understanding of queer identities; and, finally, that normative conceptions of time can—and should—be challenged through critical tools that reconceptualize notions of the self around time.19
- PublicationRestrictedMeaningful grunts and radical “Blehs”: polysemic identities through nonhuman noise in video games(University of California Press, 2024-04-01) Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco; Filología InglesaThis article studies the radical identity-making potential of noise and nonhuman sound in video ames. To do so, this article focuses on the oral production of the rabbid protagonists—mischievous humanoid rabbits easily identifiable by their constant and cacophonic sound making—in the Mario þ Rabbids series. The rabbids’ constant shouts, grunts, and cries serve as great examples of the potential of nonhuman noise and sound to not only reproduce identities that escape from human-centric conceptions of being, but, more importantly, to invite players to see all identities—including their own—as polysemic and sometimes contradictory assemblages. This article converses with existing research on the ability of human voice and silence to manage identities in video games, with studies on nonhuman material excess in video games where players control nonhuman characters, and with work on how the way animal main characters sound in video games. This dialogue brings forth reflections on what being and becoming mean. The cacophonic nature of noise does not necessarily invoke the absence of all meaning, but an opportunity to embrace its many potential meanings and reflect on an equally polysemic world.
- PublicationOpen AccessQueer time unbound(Routledge, 2025) Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco; Encarnación Pinedo, Estíbaliz; Filología Inglesa; Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco; Encarnación Pinedo, EstíbalizTime binds us. We are, desire, become, remember, and project ourselves in and through time. Time is not a line waiting for us to occupy or reign over it. Oftentimes, but even more so when left unscrutinized, it is a limiting actant, aligned with power to force individuals into very precise forms of being, guiding them to predetermined daily rhythms and forms of understanding themselves and others in time. Time is an ever-present and inevitable component of any representation of what is, was, and will be thought to be possible. Yet, just like time binds us, it can be unbound and untangled in return, bringing forth free critical thinking and facilitating other processes of becoming ungoverned by the strictures of normativity. As such, this volume recognizes the power of time to determine us, but it also chooses to queer time and make it an ally of untangled forms of understanding identities. In doing so, this volume acknowledges that, as Michel Foucault (1978) explained, history is made to look smooth and unequivocal, but it is also composed of abrupt interruptions and enforced silences in time that, following Elizabeth Freeman's example (2005), can and must be unearthed. This volume is also aware that the way time is represented, or the way representations vary in time, can be used to interpellate individuals into narrow, chrononormative forms of being (Freeman 2010), but it also seeks examples of identities projected through and in time that queer expectations to create freer forms of desiring that problematize linearity. The volume is aware that there are temporal rhythms that normatively lure, gentrify, and reterritorialize identities and bodies but also believes that this propulsion can be subverted (Jack Halberstam 2005) and transformed into a queer song of radical change that, as Esteban Muñoz (2009) claimed, calls people into action and invites them to desire other presents and futures. The common thesis of this volume is that time binds us but, more importantly, that time can also be scrutinized in search of examples where identities are untangled and time itself becomes a queer ally.
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