Jonah Jeng (@jonahjeng.bsky.social)

For communication+1’s issue on Media Aesthetics, I wrote about how SPEED RACER compels us to relate to digital technologies in a more mindful and “aesthetic” way through both a seam-filled visual style and a narrative focus on the experience of art. openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/article/...

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Speed Racer’s Aesthetic Theory of the Digital This article contends that Speed Racer (2008) embodies and expresses an aesthetic theory of the digital. Both formally and narratively, the film suggests aesthetics to be a privileged mode for negotia... https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/article/id/2050/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI9rw9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHc5d15cahGaPpWUxWKzl6ZLe2JIpDVA5qdHyDdxoZor_L05gFcYpzxSufQ_aem_H9_AI17rV-iFxx8jhgzIMw