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ArticleInternational Journal of Role-Playing18 Jul 2024

The Vampire Foucault: Erotic Horror Role-Playing Games as Technologies of the Self

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The Vampire Foucault: Erotic Horror Role-Playing Games as Technologies of the Self Popular abstract:In Technologies of the Self (1988), philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault summarizes his life work as an analysis of how various truth games explore "the relationships between truth, power, and self" and in this series of lectures he investigates the "practices whereby individuals, by their own means or with the help of others, acted on their own bodies, souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of ...

The Vampire Foucault: Erotic Horror Role-Playing Games as Technologies of the Self

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