Before I get into today’s topic, I want to note that I will be traveling to Portland later this week to present at ICAF (International Comic Arts Forum) on Saturday. This means I may not have a post up right away Sunday evening, as I will have to drive back to Iowa from Chicago after […]
In looking back through my notes for today’s post, I clearly intended for today’s “lesson” to be more or less a take down of Thomas LaMarre’s The Anime Machine. The book frustrates me in numerous ways very much analogous to my frustration with Susan Napier from last week: though a variety of philosophers are invoked (in […]
If I were being honest with myself about my academic career, taking to heart the numerous times I have been criticized for being unresponsive to the work of other scholars, it would have to be characterized as a long history of resenting how the people who dominate (and thus control access to) the scholarly fields […]
EDIT: I apologize for the delay, but as I was writing this yesterday, my daughter decided to somersault out of her bedroom window, so her mother and I spent most of the day in the emergency room. She (and we) are more or less fine, but it has resulted in a bit of a delay. […]
One of the most frustrating aspects of writing about Japanese pop culture is that those who should know better don’t bother, because it’s a somewhat universally accepted principle in academia that, in the end, it’s better to be first than to be good. In the 90s and even still today, there was/is a relative dearth […]
So, all you dear readers are likely getting sick of this; I just want to inform you then that next week we will be stepping down from our advocacy soapbox and returning to our regularly scheduled programming, in which I’ll take a look at mecha through the lens of the work of Nagai Gō. Until then! […]
This week’s post is comes by way of Andria Cheng, professional translator and all around awesome human being: I’ve been a freelance translator for six years, and people always want to know how I got started in the industry. After I graduated with my degree in Japanese in 2005, I sent my resume to all […]
