The world of Ice and Fire is a transmedia story-world borne out of the ongoing epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by the novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin, which was popularized by the TV dramatization Game of Thrones, and expanded by the TV producers and fans through the use of various online platform in the form of official lore’s and fan theories. However, I will limit my analysis mostly to the TV series, as it is the most completed and consumed version of the product so far. My form of criticism will be a Marxist one, and I will analyze the story-world and the ideologies of certain characters in the context of contemporary global crisis as it is perceived and generated in the west. I will argue that the reigning ideology of the world of The Game Thrones mostly subscribes to the cultural logic of the neo liberal world order and the apocalyptic crisis this world faces embodies the contemporary crisis of this world order. At the same time I will try to interpret some protagonists from the story who are trying to fight this crisis as some of the forms and limitations of contemporary politics.
Parvez Alam 