Anthropology of violence in the context of video game aesthetics

The problems of ethical systems in modern popular culture are considered. A number of video game projects demonstrate the desire to overcome the dichotomy of “good and evil” and enter the “grey zone of morality” – the space of complexity of motives and circumstances. In the plots of many cultures, morality is a tool for retributive relationships in the revenge form, which often manifests itself in the violence form. A detailed study of the anthropology of violence is presented on the example of the “Hotline Miami” video game, as well as the ways in which computer games reflect on contemporary sociocultural trends. The purpose of the study is to analyze how the aesthetics of video games, using audiovisual means and symbolic narratives, contributes to the representation of culture and violence in the modern media space. The methods of description, sociocultural observations and empirical content analysis are used.