[Commlist] New book: The New Real

We would like to announce a new publication from the University Of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The New Real***

Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji

*Jonathan E. Abel***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517913915/the-new-real/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517913915/the-new-real/> _*

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Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media 
studies overlap and are bound together

A synthetic history of new media reception in modern and contemporary 
Japan, /The New Real/positions mimesis at the heart of the media 
concept. Considering both mimicry and representation as the core 
functions of mediation and remediation, Jonathan E. Abel offers a new 
model for media studies while explaining the deep and ongoing 
imbrication of Japan in the history of new media.

 From stereoscopy in the late nineteenth century to emoji at the dawn 
of the twenty-first, Abel presents a pioneering history of new media 
reception in Japan across the analog and digital divide. He argues that 
there are two realities created by new media: one marketed to us through 
advertising that proclaims better, faster, and higher-resolution 
connections to the real; and the other experienced by users whose daily 
lives and behaviors are subtly transformed by the presence and 
penetration of the content carried through new media. Intervening in 
contemporary conversations about virtuality, copyright, copycat 
violence, and social media, each chapter unfolds with a focus on a 
single medium or technology, including 3D photographs, the phonograph, 
television, videogames, and emoji.

By highlighting the tendency of the mediated to copy the world and the 
world to copy the mediated, T/he New Real /provides a new path for 
analysis of media, culture, and their function in the world.

*Jonathan E. Abel*is associate professor in the Department of 
Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State 
University. He is author of /Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in 
Transwar Japan /and cotranslator of /Azuma Hiroki’s Otaku: Japan’s 
Database Animals/(Minnesota, 2009) and /Karatani Kōjin’s Nation and 
Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud.///


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