Civilization IV – Age of Empire

"Civilization IV – Age of Empire" is a game that creates a socio-economical model, mapping the processes, flows, comparativeness and differentiation in the market. This model simulates activities of some of the world's top IT corporations. The game displays the functioning of today's IT complex machine in a most transparent way, including the role of military-entertaining complex, immaterial labor, pharmaceutical industry, net.economy, business espionage, surveillance mechanisms, sex/porn industry, terrorism, governmentality, schizophrenia.

The name of the game, "Civilization IV" is questioning the copyrighting of the word "Civilization" by Sid Meyers & Co. which should be common property for whole mankind.

Eastwood is a group dedicated to the research of relations between information technology and cultural practice. Eastwood establishes a platform for understanding of basic principles of information society and wider implications that a new social and class system is bringing.
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