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NEWS: Anime & Philosophy, Manga & Philosophy Books This Year




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minakichan





PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:39 am Reply with quote
It's a nice concept, but the covers are unfortunate... if you're going to hire a deviantartist to draw your cover, consider the more popular ones at least...
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redcar



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:10 am Reply with quote
minakichan wrote:
It's a nice concept, but the covers are unfortunate... if you're going to hire a deviantartist to draw your cover, consider the more popular ones at least...

Yes of course, because as everyone knows, philosophy is all about appearances and everyone who buys these books will do it for the fantastic art. Rolling Eyes

I'm glad to see yet more academic publications surrounding anime and manga come out. I'll definitely have to give these a look!
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_V_



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:17 am Reply with quote
let me take a blind guess: Susan Napier is going to pass off her ridiculously wrong/interpretive/unresearched essays on Evangelion (from "Wired Dreams") YET AGAIN...

...look, we've seen what the "Mechademia" crowd puts out: usually just a bunch of "and that is YET ANOTHER phallic symbol!" junk I wouldn't accept from one of my undergrads.

I hope these are entirely different people.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:44 am Reply with quote
Will look forward to both, still it be hard to top Watchmen and Philosophy.

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corinthian



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:53 am Reply with quote
So much for not judging a book by its cover, eh? Besides, check out the Final Fantasy and Philosophy book. It's got the contributors'/editors' heads on Moogle bodies...

I actually enjoy the Pop Culture and Philosophy series, so I'll be looking forward to these.
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Vicserr



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:32 am Reply with quote
Yeah but covers with abstract drawings or just plain words would be better that those "art class amateur hour" covers.
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BleuVII



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:25 pm Reply with quote
Interesting. I first came across this type of thing at Schoolgirls and Mobile Suits in Minneapolis. If they get some of those speakers to contribute, this is going to be a great book.
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CorneredAngel



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:58 pm Reply with quote
BleuVII wrote:
Interesting. I first came across this type of thing at Schoolgirls and Mobile Suits in Minneapolis. If they get some of those speakers to contribute, this is going to be a great book.


At least one of the authors will be Ada Palmer, who currently teaches at Texas A&M...and runs the TezukaInEnglish.com website. Her chapter's title is <i>'You, God of Manga, are Cruel!': Karma and Suffering in the Universe of Osamu Tezuka</i>.
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pparker



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:06 pm Reply with quote
_V_ wrote:
let me take a blind guess: Susan Napier is going to pass off her ridiculously wrong/interpretive/unresearched essays on Evangelion (from "Wired Dreams") YET AGAIN...

...look, we've seen what the "Mechademia" crowd puts out: usually just a bunch of "and that is YET ANOTHER phallic symbol!" junk I wouldn't accept from one of my undergrads.

I hope these are entirely different people.

You're right about Napier. I've said about her that I pity anyone who sees every concavity as a vagina or anus, and every convexity as a penis. Must be annoying at the deli.

However, from what you say about the Mechademia books, I'd say you haven't actually read them, or else you are wildly generalizing based on one or two entries. Yes, there's some nutty psych-aetheist pseudo-science amazing mental wanking sessions in there, but very little actually. I find the series, being midst Vol 3 at the moment, to be overall enjoyable, usually well-written, and occasionally to make good sense and provide valid insights. In other words, more than I should expect from academia. For someone new to anime, the analysis and comparisons of series are valuable in themselves and quite a lot of detailed information is given that isn't easily accessible otherwise. As long as they are read with the critical thinking cap on, no threat to sanity.
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_V_



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:33 pm Reply with quote
...well, not all of Mechademia is like that, but they just *couldn't* escape putting a few articles in like that.

Granted, not all of them were, but including the "everything is a phallic symbol!" type articles alongside the others only legitimizes the crazy ones
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:40 pm Reply with quote
Having glanced through some sample chapters of other works in this series, one finds the content somewhat introductory in character.
As much as the use of anime as a subject matter might cause me to take interest in the arguments raised nonetheless, one doubts that discourse will be raised over the anime of which I am a notable fan.
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venka21



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:09 am Reply with quote
Hey, this is the sort of thing I was looking for in a project I'm doing.

Who nows we may have a finding religion in anime book.
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