Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence

They walk out under the branches of hopelessness They think of this world welcoming the bodies of their sons.

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Robert Cockrell, Battlefield 4 Footage: https://youtu.be/T0Y3G-kLBYs Arronmunroe, Time Crisis Arcade: https://youtu.be/DjOnbYXhrBo LopMusic1, Red Dead Redemption 2 Sunrise: https://youtu.be/XiPXXPVnlB4 The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools: https://slate.com/business/2019/08/school-shootings-design-architecture-sandy-hook-columbine.html?src=longreads How UT architecture restricts activism: http://courses.jilliansayre.net/files/Politics%20of%20UT%20architecture.pdf Metal Detectors and Feeling Safe at School: https://journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/doi/abs/10.1177/0013124510380717 Were Brutalist Buildings on College Campuses Really Designed to Thwart Student Riots?: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/campus-brutalism-were-the-buildings-designed-to-thwart-student-riots.html 13 On Your Side- Fruitport High School: https://youtu.be/mXeMGMtOB2Y NBC News- Inside the Safest School in America: https://youtu.be/kcpsnrxHdCc CBS News- New Sandy Hook School Opens: https://youtu.be/Ayi69eQd6A8 UNC Protests, September 8 2018: https://youtu.be/iRKuNTY6yKM University of Texas Austin Tour: https://youtu.be/QklCIStFv5I On the Humanist Ethic Behind Brutalism: https://www.spiked-online.com/2016/02/25/brutalism-and-the-word-was-made-concrete/

Games shown: Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption II, Max Payne 3, Vanquish, Minecraft, Uncharted 4, The Evil Within, Battlefield 4, Spec Ops: The Line, Time Crisis, Control

Music used: Red Dead Redemption II (Fleeting Joy, Outlaws from the West, Icarus and Friend, The Wheel), Max Payne 3 (DEAD, Painkiller), Sunset (Dancing in the Sand), Uncharted 2 (Bustin’ Chops)