I have to admit, this one’s a little ridiculous, even for us. Ghostlightning, lelangir, Cuchlann, and I all somehow ended up in a chat a scant few hours ago. Initially, the topic was Kannagi, but, when matters of disparate theory arose, things got a little crazy. The title is apt; in fact, what you’ll see [...]
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brief thoughts on social commentary
[Post by Lelangir] ←[94] Basically… So when an author deliberately pens a text as social commentary, it is directed towards society, the mainstream. That’s subversive, counter-hegemonic, whatever you want to call it, since it steps outside the dominant discourse (which I tried to represent with the spray paint tool). The hegemonic text is one that [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 20 December 2008
http://superfani.com/2008/12/20/brief-thoughts-on-social-commentary/
The Otouto dialogue: an addendum (or, How to avoid working on those daunting drafts)
Pontifus: I’m telling you, the writing process is a learning experience in itself. Otouto-kun: True. Pontifus: I finally realized that the purpose of critical writing isn’t to share a critic’s knowledge, it’s to teach a critic something and give other critics something to bounce their ideas off of. Remember my whole approach: there is no [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 12 October 2008
http://superfani.com/2008/10/12/the-otouto-dialogue-an-addendum-or-how-to-avoid-working-on-those-daunting-drafts/
[LWC 69] The Archaeology of the Text: more philosophy of criticism
[Post by Lelangir] I posted this on a different non-anime blog of mine some time ago: You can interpret the effect of technology as an archaeological study. Technology, a product of society – society, a product of technology – says and objectively states something about its influential parentage, its social pedigree, the conditions under which [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 11 October 2008
http://superfani.com/2008/10/11/lwc-69-the-archaeology-of-the-text-more-philosophy-of-criticism/
The Otouto dialogue: a philosophy of criticism
I’ve been meaning to make a fairly straightforward post about criticism and my thoughts thereupon, as that seems to be a step in the average critical aniblogger’s acquisition of internet tenure. But when an alternative presented itself, I resolved to do something a bit different. What follows is an IM conversation between myself and my [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 9 October 2008
http://superfani.com/2008/10/09/the-otouto-dialogue-a-philosophy-of-criticism/
“The play’s the thing:” the video game as text
Let’s say we wanted to found a critical discipline around video games. Sure, there exist plenty of studies of games as digital mingling grounds and youth-corrupting influences, and there’s always game theory, but for our purposes we’d need to figure out a way of analyzing games as art. How would we do it? We could [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 22 September 2008
http://superfani.com/2008/09/22/the-plays-the-thing-the-video-game-as-text/
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