Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Steinsgate: A Game That Can Hardly Be Considered a Game
In this chapter you give a sort of a pre history I guess first to start out, playing with this idea of interpassivity. But then you dive specifically into a case study of a game called Steinsgate, and its aesthetics of stereo mimesis and the resulting hypermediacy that we've been talking about. And it's also an interesting sort of segue into the next chapter which is chapter five which is about games as media. It was really interesting to think about copyright in terms of in these in these national terms which is not at all how I had considered them until now.
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