[8] Serendipity Notion

While it is not necessarily the viewer that creates meaning out of meaningless or not-so-meaningful things (I will later address the very notion of “creation”), the meaning that authors insert into anime is not all-encompassing of the entirety of the anime itself. As the title suggests, there is a serendipitous, if not incomplete component of [...]

[002] Harima Kenji and the Plurality of Masculinity

Sean Nixon wrote an article on new types of masculinity called “Exhibiting Masculinity” where, upon investigating the cultural representation of half naked men, he also brings up one important concept which I think is important and readily applicable to, well, a shitload of stuff. Nixon remarks that “[i]n particular, the concept of patriarchy is weak [...]