Paul Benzon
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Not Another Parody
Great post, Taylor. I'm also intrigued by the other intertext for this trailer-- as the imagined film's title suggests, it's also engaging somehow with "Not Another Teen Movie," the mashup-esque 2001 parody of (surprise!) the teen ... -
Time Capsules
The temporal gaps suggested by these early easter eggs are fascinating to me. On one hand, there's the common placement of the content inside the game, and on the other there's the coterie discourse of the 1970s programmer community-- the inside ... -
Re: The Errant Pixel
Errant Circulation
Hi Genevieve, This is a great post, and it raises all sorts of provocative lines of thought about the circulation of media objects and how decay, distortion, deterioration, etc., play into that circulation. Your description of these pixels as "errant ... -
Re: Burn, Baby, Burn
Anti-Preservation
Thanks, Matt and Snowden, for these great comments-- questions of preservation and archivization are a larger part of what intrigues me in the demolition, and the points of comparison and connection you both point out are really illuminating. The key diff ... -
Lost And Found?
You raise a great tension in your last question about the band here, Michael. Their excitement at finding a mass grave of copies of a game they're already bored with echoes the way the myth of the burial circulates in culture at large. While whateve ... -
E.T. Historiography
I think one thing worth underscoring about all of these explanations for "why E.T.?" is that they're all post facto-- as with the Daily News article Mark cites, The New York Times is equally nonspecific, and I haven't seen any materia ... -
Retro Materiality
Great post and discussion so far-- I feel like I could be putting this comment on Matthew's post as well, which says a lot about the cohesion of thinking in what has been a great week. I like Matthew's concept of a material substrate of nostalg ... -
Truman Defeats Phelps
Really intriguing post, Ryan. It seems to me the processes you take up here through the Phelps video is part of a long history of anticipation and premediation across the media industries-- these memorializations get produced not because of the instantane ... -
Scale of Archive, Scale of Access
Thanks for this response, Andrew-- you're right that Lucky Wander Boy and Ready Player One are both key intertexts for this project, and ones that I'll definitely have to think about more as I continue working on it. And I'm intrigued ... -
Go Back to Yesterday
Great post, Matthew. I just made a comment on yesterday's conversation that's as much a response to this as it is to Michael's post-- take a look if you're interested. ...