By Kristen Lacefield
In 1991, the e-book of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the 1st novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a major outpouring of cultural creation in Japan, Korea, and the us. simply because the topic of the booklet is the lethal viral copy of a VHS tape, so, too, is the enormous proliferation of textual content and cinematic productions suggestive of an airborne contagion with a lifetime of its personal. examining the extreme trans-cultural approval for the hoop phenomenon, the feared monitor locates a lot of its energy within the ways that the books and flicks astutely graft modern cultural preoccupations onto the normal components of the ghost story”in specific, the japanese ghost tale. while, the participants reveal, those cultural matters are themselves underwritten by way of various anxieties prompted through the arrival of latest communications and media applied sciences, probably most importantly, the shift from analog to electronic. Mimicking the phenomenon it seeks to appreciate, the collection's strength comes from its dedication to the complete variety of Ring-related output and its include of a wide selection of interpretive techniques, because the individuals chart the mutations of the hoop narrative from writer to writer, from medium to medium, and from Japan to Korea to the USA.
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The technologies depicted in the Ring films range from library books and oversized archival volumes to phones and cameras, from televisions and videotapes to computers, photocopiers, and high-tech equipment found in archives and electronic media labs. In both the Japanese film and its American remake, Reiko/ Rachel’s professional status as journalists thrusts them into close contact with an array of technologies and makes several forms of media readily available to them as they investigate the origins of the killer videotape.
A Brief History of Japanese Parapsychology During the Meiji period (1868–1912) western scientific methods were gradually being transplanted into Japan. 14 When Enryo Inoue founded the Philosophical Institute or “Tetsugaku Kan” (the predecessor of Tokyo University), he was firmly committed to eliminating superstitious thought. html. 14 Tatsuya and Takao Sato, “The Early 20th Century: Shaping the Discipline of Psychology in Japan,” Japanese Psychological Research, 47/2 (2005): p. 60. 15 Many Japanese intellectuals were disappointed by western rationalism, however, and they looked instead for alternative ways to explain the conditions of human existence.
The term “channeling,” which was employed for both occult and technological media, See, for example, Werner Sollors, “Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s Celestial Telegraph, or Indian Blessings to Gas-Lit American Drawing Rooms,” Social Science Information, 22/6 (1983): p. 991; John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 94; Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), p.