Political Remediations in Interactive Fiction
Emily Short and Liza Daly’s First Draft of the Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16714836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Vanderborg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postmodern Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pmc.2023.a952512 |
| OpenAlex | W4407858155 |
| Language | EN |
This essay reads Emily Short and Liza Daly’s First Draft of the Revolution (2012) as a leading example of recent digital interactive fiction that uses remediations for political critique. The clashes and contradictions in First Draft ’s remediations of paper texts are where the piece discloses the propaganda of a suppressive regime as well as challenges the idea of a new medium’s immanent revolutionary potential. The essay briefly traces interactive fiction’s development as a genre grounded in remediation and concludes by placing First Draft in context of related interactive “complicity” texts and other political directions for the genre’s future remediations
Art · Art history · Literature · Political science · Politics · Digital Games and Media · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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