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‘Born of the Blood, Made Men by the Blood, Undone by the Blood’: Bloodborne as a Critical Reflection of Ghosts of the Anthropocene
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Forum for Gender Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2433-9618
School of Education, Culture and Communication, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7617-1277
School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich, Greenwich, London, UK.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0695-6770
2025 (English)In: Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, ISSN 1555-4120, E-ISSN 1555-4139Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Drawing on critical frameworks in criminology, including Popular Criminology and Ghost Criminology, this paper aims to explore how Bloodborne offers a critical reflection of the haunting nature of the harms inflicted by humans in the age of the Anthropocene. More specifically, we aim to examine how the cultural text of Bloodborne illustrates humanity's corruption of the natural and the harms this inflicts, arguing that this can be understood as a reflection of ghosts of the Anthropocene. Using ethnographic content analysis, three main themes were uncovered in Bloodborne that related to humanity's corruption of the natural, the harms this inflict, as well as how this can be understood as a reflection of ghosts of the Anthropocene: Sanguine Exploitation, Horrific Creation, and Monstrous Extinction. We conclude by arguing that Bloodborne, in evoking the horrors of climate catastrophe, is an important cultural script that responds to McBrien’s necrocene and Haraway’s Chthulucene.

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Sage Publications, 2025.
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bloodborne, Anthropocene, criminology, hauntology, abject, weird, Cthulu, environmental violence
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Criminology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-54544DOI: 10.1177/15554120251342104ISI: 001491076700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005578066OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-54544DiVA, id: diva2:1962650
Available from: 2025-06-02 Created: 2025-06-02 Last updated: 2025-09-25

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