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. [...]
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Of Diebuster, structure, and the parents of gods
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/
What Umberto Eco is Saying to lelangir, Just Because I Want Him to
[Post by Ghostlightning] Inspired by the non-shitty shitstorm here at Superfani called ‘twitter philosophy’ [->], I’m spinning the discussion off from lelangir’s epigram: nihilism is knowledge/power; in most cases, it can only be realized/actualized within capitalist institutions, thus materialism is the means towards idealism, towards the construction of contingent truths, towards a philosophical happiness that [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 26 April 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/04/26/what-umberto-eco-is-saying-to-lelangir-just-because-i-want-him-to/
Mouvance and adaptation
Responding to my last post, IKnight pointed me in the direction of an interesting little theory, and, since I haven’t been able to muster the concentration required to watch Ouran High School Host Club for long periods of time like I’d planned, I figured I may as well see what I could make of mouvance. [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 9 March 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/03/09/mouvance-and-adaptation/
Adventures in Criticism, pt. 4
After over two months away — two months of thesis writing and so on — my Adventures in Criticism return. If you recall from last time, we tackled Frye’s first essay, the “Theory of Modes.” Or rather, one third of it. I’m going through the second third now.
Posted by cuchlann on 9 March 2009
http://superfani.com/2009/03/09/adventures-in-criticism-pt-4/
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