The cultural economy of ludic superflatness

3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 783-788

  Chan, Dean ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

2D; Cultural economy; History; Hybridity; Otaku; Superflat; Takashi Murakami

Indexed keywords

2D; CULTURAL ECONOMY; HYBRIDITY; OTAKU; SUPERFLAT; TAKASHI MURAKAMI;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HISTORY;

EID: 84873360383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Allison, A. "The Cultural Politics of Pokemon Capitalism," 2002. Available at http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2/Abstracts/AnneAllison.pdf.
2. Allison, A. "Portable Monsters and Commodity Cuteness: Pokemon as Japan's New Global Power," in Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6, no. 3 (2003), pp. 381-395.
3. Azuma, H. "Superflat Japanese Postmodernity," 2001. Available at http://www.hirokiazuma.com/en/texts/superflat-en1.html.
4. Brehm, M. "Takashi Murakami: A Lesson In Strategy (Morphed Double-Loop)," in Brehm, M. (ed.), The Japanese Experience - Inevitable, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern- Ruit, 2002, pp. 36-40.
5. Brehm, M. "The Floating World That Almost Was," in Brehm, M. (ed.), The Japanese Experience - Inevitable, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, pp. 8-19.
6. Du Gay, P., and Pryke, M. "Cultural Economy: An Introduction," in du Gay, P., and Pryke, M., (eds.), Cultural Economy: Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life, Sage, London, 2002, pp. 1-19.
7. Iwabuchi, K. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism, Duke University Press, Durham, 2002.
8. Iwabuchi, K. "Soft" Nationalism and Narcissism: Japanese Popular Culture Goes Global," in Asian Studies Review, vol. 26, no. 4 (December 2002), pp. 447-469.
9. Lubow, A. "The Murakami Method," (April 3, 2005). The New York Times Magazine. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/ 03MURAKAMI.html?ex=1270267200&en=7f2505d23b302648&ei=5090&partner= rssuserland.
10. "Made in Nintendo," in Edge, No. 148 (April 2005), pp. 72-79.
11. Minami, Y. "Takashi Murakami Strikes Back," in Murakami, T. (ed.), Summon Monsters? Open the Door? Heal? Or Die? Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2001, pp. 58-63.
12. Munster, A. "Compression and the Intensification of Visual Information in Flash Aesthetics," in Proceedings of MelbourneDAC2003 (2003), pp. 135-143.
13. Murakami, T. "Superflat Trilogy: Greetings, You Are Alive," in Murakami, T. (ed.), Little Boy: The Arts Of Japan's Exploding Subculture, Yale University Press, London, 2005, pp. 151-161.
14. Surman, D. "Ota-Kings, Brat Princes and Copied Cousins: Katamari in Context." Available at http://www.learnit.org.gu.se/digitalAssets/889064- surman.pdf.
15. Wakasa, M. "Takashi Murakami" [Interview], in Journal of Contemporary Art (2001). Available at http://www.zenitin.com/archive/ TakashiMurakami.