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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The Importance of Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy was supposed to connect us to the world that is it was sold as a kind of armchair travel you could sit at at home in your living room and see the world because it would, it would be present before you. But when you stare at it long enough, or you kind of understand your sitting in your livingroom at the same time as you're shuffling through these things and it always is a little bit fake. And so what your your eyes are kind of being fooled into creating this this 3D sense, but it's not quite complete and that's why it feels kind of like a diorama so it kind of fails right the eventually.
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