Jesper Juul has an amazing new book:
Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 !
Just in case you thought I was the only one blogging these days — no, Jesper has a post in which he describes the book and lists talks he is doing about it. In the book, he considers how the C64 was different things to different people over time, with five main sorts of media imaginaries (or computational imaginaries) at work.
Those of us at the MIT Trope Tank were delighted that he came to visit in Spring 2022 and did a good bit of the research and writing of this book while he was with us. I’m also really pleased that this book was the fourth of four 2024 publications in the MIT Press Platform Studies series that I edit with Ian Bogost.
I want to highlight two of Jesper’s talks about this book coming up in February:
ROMChip is sponsoring an online talk on February 7, 2pm Eastern, on Twitch. I have an online meeting at the same time, but fortunately I’ll be at this next event later in February:
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing is hosting a talk on February 25 at 5pm, Room 14S-130. This room is inside the Hayden Library; I’ll be introducing Jesper.
