Sekai Kei Nyumon (Seikaisha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] A New "Sekaikei" Theory Connecting the Imagination and Criticism of the Zero Era to the Next Generation! Sekaikei"-Imagination that should have ended, stories that are being forgotten. This term, born in the 2000s, was spread with a vague definition in the torrent of otaku culture and subculture criticism of the zero-era, leaving behind its proponent's expression of works that tended to "describe the narrator's own vision of the world in the grandiose term 'world. The term "old imagination," as it was called in the late 1990s, has continued to appear like a ghost in the post-2010s era. In this book, Hiroki Azuma, a critic who made his debut with his sekaikei essay in the email magazine "Wavy Discourse," edited by the critic Hiroki Azuma, writes this book to bridge the gap between the older generation that has forgotten sekaikei and the younger generation that is beginning to misunderstand it, and to connect the imagination and criticism of the zero's to the next generation. We aim to place Sekaikei in the big picture of the history of culture and criticism through a new summary and vision of the debate.

ゼロ年代の想像力と批評を次世代へ繋ぐ、新「セカイ系」論!「セカイ系」―それは終わったはずの想像力、忘れられつつある物語たち。ゼロ年代=2000年代に生まれたこの用語は、「語り手自身の了見を「世界」という誇大な言葉で言い表したがる」傾向がある作品という提唱者の表現を離れ、ゼロ年代のオタク文化・サブカルチャー批評の奔流のなかで曖昧な定義のままに拡散されました。ゼロ年代後半には「古い想像力」と言われたこの用語は、しかし2010年代以後にも亡霊のように現れ続けています。そこで本書では、批評家・東浩紀氏が責任編集のメールマガジン『波状言論』にてセカイ系論でデビューした批評家が筆を執り、セカイ系を忘却した年長世代とセカイ系を誤解しつつある年少世代の溝を埋めるため、そしてゼロ年代の想像力と批評を次世代へ繋げるため、セカイ系を巡る議論を交通整理し、その新たな総括と展望から文化史・批評史の大局にセカイ系を位置付けることを目指します。