[Post by Lelangir] warning: meta junk. Brother ghost has written us another post, and a reply we shall conjure. He writes: Stories have become primary methodology of education. It’s not that really different now. We have enormous variation in terms of media, but stories perform many of the same purposes: to educate the listener/reader/viewer in [...]
All posts tagged methodology
Discourse, Fandom, Methodology
Posted by Pontifus on 29 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/29/discourse-fandom-methodology/
Adventures in Criticism: too many for a number!
Actually, it’s the seventh, but I figure now’s as good a time as any to stop numbering them and just admit they’re a (semi-)regular feature. Woo! Anyhow, this time I’m doing an essay called “Coming to Terms” by Gary K. Wolfe. It’s short, so hopefully I can get this entry done before the scourging weather [...]
Posted by cuchlann on 14 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/14/adventures-in-criticism-too-many-for-a-number/
Of Diebuster, structure, and the parents of gods
Breaking into the super robot genre has proven difficult for me, so I asked the wise OGT to point me toward a few shows that might help. Among other things, he recommended Gunbuster (aka Top wo Nerae!) — you may already know this, given all the fanboying I did over the show and its sequel. [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 4 June 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/06/04/of-diebuster-structure-and-the-parents-of-gods/
What the hell is art? — I. Strange bedfellows
What is art? Yeah, I went there. Trepidatiously, maybe, but it’s not as if we haven’t talked about it before. Besides, it’s bound to be fun if we pull relevant examples from the reader communities to which we belong. So strap yourselves in, my magnificent comrades; you’re in for some unusual posts. Each post in [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 26 April 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/04/26/what-the-hell-is-art-i-strange-bedfellows/
The faces of tigers and dragons
Remember me? It’s Pontifus, that guy who has successfully ignored the blog he created for about a month! Why, you may or may not ask? Because I’m embroiled in another of my regularly scheduled methodological crises, and those are well and truly crippling. But that’s boring, so let’s move on. I realized recently that Baka-Tsuki [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 2 March 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/03/02/the-faces-of-tigers-and-dragons/
Thank God for the apocalypse: setting and the authorial shell
Why thank God for the apocalypse? Because it gives me something to write about that isn’t Aria. Not that I dislike writing about Aria, but it has a way of possessing me via dark, indefinable magics and forcing me to serve its needs. It’s an unforgiving master. And I haven’t even watched the second or [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 9 January 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/01/09/thank-god-for-the-apocalypse-setting-and-the-authorial-shell/
