The Ethics of Knowledge in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West | Essays about Games

I played Horizon Zero Dawn and #HorizonForbiddenWest, and now I'm making it everyone's problem 🐸 In this video, I examine the different perspectives and attitudes characters and groups have towards knowledge and information in the Horizon games series.

Note: big, big spoiler warning for both main games and DLC! Due to this essay being written before the announcement and release of Burning Shores, it doesn't cover some of the info we get about the Quen in that add-on. Also, while I usually try to use gameplay capture showcasing exactly what I'm talking about at any time, I decided to make this essay into a video after I'd already completed HFW's main story, of which I recorded very little. I've done my best to add screenshots (of which I did have plenty) for clarity. Just be aware that some of the footage includes somewhat spoiler-y scenes from the Burning Shores DLC.

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00:00 - Opening
02:07 - Introduction pt 1
02:58 - Plot summary
09:21 - Introduction pt 2
12:39 - APOLLO
21:06 - Ted Faro
25:59 - Sylens
31:49 - Far Zenith
36:19 - The Quen
46:11 - Aloy
55:20 - Closing

Citations:
[1] The Left Hand of Darkness: https://books.google.de/books?id=MDve...
[2] Fictions of Knowledg: https://books.google.de/books?id=KZmI...
[3] Archive Abuse | Horizon Wiki | Fandom: https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Archi...
[4] Grigori Fasbach's Journal | Horizon Wiki | Fandom: https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Grigo...
[5] Nemesis | Horizon Wiki | Fandom: https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Nemesis

Further Reading
(PDF) Of Pregnant Kings and Manly Landladies: Negotiating Intersex in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin: https://francisbass.com/2018/03/30/re...
‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ at Fifty: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...
Techno-Optimism vs. Pessimism vs. Nihilism — Dark Gray Matters: https://etiennefd.com/dgm/techno-opti...
Nihilism and Technology: https://books.google.de/books?id=reTa...
Nihilism and Technology (review): https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/nihilism-...
Treating your techno-nihilism — Part 1/2:   / treating-your-techno-nihilism-part-1-2  
Treating your techno-nihilism — Part 2/2:   / treating-your-techno-nihilism-part-2-2