Published by
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea
Current Issue
RiMe 17/II n.s. (December 2025)
Jeux vidéo, Pratiques plastiques contemporaines et Histoire(s)
Video Games, Contemporary Visual Arts and History(ies)
Sous la direction de / Edited by
Emmanuelle Jacques - Luciano Gallinari
This Special Issue concerning the representations of History within contemporary videoludic and artistic practices, originated from a research seminar held on 16 June 2023 at the RIRRA21 laboratory of Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, in partnership with the Institute for the History of Mediterranean Europe of the National Research Council in Cagliari, Italy. The call for papers sought to interrogate how and why History has become a central concern for the cultural industries, specifically the video game industry. Our point of departure was the observation that History—and military history in particular—has consistently been a favoured subject within the realm of board games.
In the contemporary landscape, History provides rich and diverse socio-societal panoramas through the iconic representations found in video game universes. Digital artistic media reproduce the dominant values of a neoliberal economy: fluid, limitless, and gamified. They constitute a space where all boundaries are deconstructed—those between the real and the virtual, truth and reality, the serious and the playful, and between Macro-History and Micro-history(ies).... Thanks to technology, anyone can now engage with history as it unfolds, rewrite it and, above all, shape it according to their imagination. Playing with history, disguising it, wandering through it and appropriating it for the sake of petty narcissistic pleasures seems to delight the postmodern mind, which uses alternate history to imagine itself as timeless
Published:
2026-04-12
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Introduction / Introduzione
RiMe 17/II n.s.( December 2025) Special Issue
RiMe. Rivista dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea (ISSN 2035-794X) is an electronic Journal of studies on the Mediterranean, founded by the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM) of the italian National Research Council (CNR).
The Journal is multidisciplinary and brings together methodologies and critical paths in the field of Humanities and it is open to historical, literary, linguistic, philological, philosophical and anthropological contributions.
RiMe is aimed at scholars from different countries, bodies and research groups, in order to promote and support their collaboration around common scientific interests on themes and motives related to the historical identity of Mediterranean Europe and their varied external relations.
The Journal is intended as a place for reflection for an audience of specialists, and, at the same time, as a tool for disseminating the results of research in civil society.
RiMe. Rivista dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea (ISSN 2035-794X) è una rivista elettronica di studi sul Mediterraneo, fondata dall'Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea (ISEM) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR).
La rivista è multidisciplinare, fa interagire metodologie e percorsi critici nell’ambito delle scienze umane ed è aperta a contributi di carattere storico, letterario, linguistico, filologico, filosofico, antropologico.
RiMe si rivolge a studiose e studiosi appartenenti a paesi, enti e gruppi di ricerca diversi, per promuoverne e sostenerne la collaborazione intorno ai comuni interessi scientifici sui temi e motivi legati all’identità storica dell'Europa mediterranea e alle loro variegate relazioni esterne.
La rivista si propone come organo di riflessione destinato a un pubblico di specialisti e, di pari passo, come strumento di disseminazione dei risultati delle ricerche nella società civile.
