Wondering if there's some interesting purchase to be had on videogame demakes via the idea of 'procedural caricature'.... Bergson talks about caricaturists seizing on features/characteristics that bespeak 'recalcitrance,' immobility, the machinic; demakes take caricature from the realm of synchronic representation to that of diachronic simulation, hyperbolically approximating the most sailent (or ridiculous) routines, procedures, mechanics.... Normally the gag is pretty cheap - made in the service of making us feel fond and nostalgic, or smug and superior. There's fascinating potential in parodic software though - seems like this is sort of what Pippin Barr's latest project is getting at...
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