Forum - View topicNEWS: Anime & Philosophy, Manga & Philosophy Books This Year
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minakichan
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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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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. 
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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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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LordRedhand
 Posts: 1472 Location: Middle of Nowhere, Indiana |
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Will look forward to both, still it be hard to top Watchmen and Philosophy.
Last edited by LordRedhand on Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:50 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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corinthian
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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
 Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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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
 Posts: 672 Location: Tokorozawa, Japan |
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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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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
 Posts: 1185 Location: Florida |
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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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...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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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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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
Posts: 15 Location: Pleasant Hill, ca |
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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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