Ph.D. student in Asian studies. Mostly researching media and games-related tech—I'd get more specific, but I may end up questioning what I'm doing. (He/Him)
So far, Columbia, Indiana University and Northwestern have all had admin bypass faculty committees to unilaterally change codes in order to suspend and ban protesters.
For those who are interested in games and are scrolling through the #AAS2024 program: my paper on a play-by-mail game from 1990s Japan is up!
The presentation is a bit chaotic, but the materials are great!
The latest English edition of the GPS Newsletter is now available on the website. This issue features our Laserdisc game and magazine archival processes, as well as a look at the history of erotic games in Japan.
You can find it here:
🔗https://t.co/gwlP8mbILF
Broke: the Japanese Consulate-General in Chicago has convinced itself finishing your meal is a unique Japanese concept
Woke: whoever runs the Consulate-General's Facebook account recently had someone over for dinner who didn't finish their meal and they're still mad about it
I encourage students to exclusively read secondary texts written by Germans during the nineteenth century so that they learn that all of their ideas that they think are original have in fact already been thoroughly criticized and refuted.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that I need to write to think, which also means always producing writing that is imperfect, and flawed. But these flaws lead to the next project and better understanding of what I don’t yet know - and need to work towards.