“The preferred worlds to simulate were either sci-fi or Edo-period Japan, as if the two breaks of the Meiji restoration (1868) and the occupation (1945) had not happened. Azuma links simulation to the practice of détournement or the fan-based making… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars of a… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“The preferred worlds to simulate were either sci-fi or Edo-period Japan, as if the two breaks of the Meiji restoration (1868) and the occupation… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, “an aggregate of information without a narrative” or… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
