Edmond Y. Chang
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Queer/Games/Community
Given the COVID-19 crisis, with its fraught resonance with other pandemics, this intersection of games, spaces, play, community, queerness, survival, disease, and mutual aid (particularly for analog games) is on a lot of people's minds--from playing ... -
Death of the Author/Death of the Fan
The tension between author/developer intent and fan response/poaching (to quote Henry Jenkins's oft-used phrase) is much more pronounced whenever I teach video games (or certain pop culture texts). In games, particularly, there is a sense of ownersh ... -
Pokemon in Drag
I had not heard about this controversy till now. Pokemon dragging pokemon is really fascinating. I do not know enough about the Pokeverse to say right now, but it would be interesting to further lean on how the memes push or replicate certain gendered/s ... -
Pokeyman Parody
Speaking of intertextuality, a new little web-based game just hit Kongregate entitled "That Pokeyman Thing Your Grandkids Are Into" (Punch the Moon, 2016): http://www.kongregate.com/games/claedalus/that-pokeyman-thing-your-grandkids-are-into ... -
Fortuitously, my #WGS361
Fortuitously, my #WGS361 students are reading all of the Pokemon Go posts for class this week: http://edmondchang.com/courses/361/. Pokemon Go is one of the games we are looking at this week. ... -
Augmented, Really?
I think all of our posts thus far raise the possibilities for engaged and even radical interventions that Pokemon Go allows-- albeit contingently-- for connection, for pulling together different experiences and knowledge making, and for exploration and en ... -
Seat of the Soul
I have not (yet) seen Her, but I think the questions and problems you raise echo what I thought when I first saw the trailers. I wonder, though, given my limited knowledge of the film whether or not it is actually trying to divorce the mind from the body ... -
Radical?
A very interesting week with some really great posts and provocations. I wonder about how far the idea of "radical" + posthuman + woman is taken by the texts this week (and how far we are willing to take things). I would say that the problem wit ... -
Doctor Who: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Difference
I very much appreciate the ideas and claims here, and I agree that texts/series/fandoms like Doctor Who are rich in terms of narraitve, representation, and consumption. I do wonder, however, whether or not the series will push the boundaries and inclusion ... -
Fan-Created Material
Of course, this reminds me of Henry Jenkins' "textual poachers," where fans claim, transform, repurpose a creative or narrative property and often write against canon. I appreciate the idea of both being a fan of and critiquing DW. What do ...