On HU
In this week’s Featured Archive post I discussed manga, Twilight, Alain Badiou and the pros and cons of globalization.
Ng Suat Tong on Eric Khoo’s film on Tatsumi.
I provide a death metal download mix.
Robert Stanley Martin on Godard’s contempt.
I review Lilli Carré’s adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Fir Tree.
James Romberger on Neal Adams and Ultraviolence.
I talk Termite art and the Assault on Precinct 13.
I wish that tcj.com wouldn’t worship Jaime Hernandez.
Susan Kirtley contemplates moving her comics.
Kailyn Kent discusses melodrama, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Habibi.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Splice Today I have a really long review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, about the worldwide decrease in violence.
Other Links
Tucker Stone does his thing.
Charles Hatfield on the decade in independent comics.
Tucker Stone reads The Economist.
Matt Seneca interviews one of HU’s most mysterious contributors.
Your last URL links up to Robert’s Godard review….
Thanks; it’s fixed.
Uh, maybe the “fix” hasn’t reached Tallahassee yet? Am still getting the Godard critique…
Dagnabit! Sorry; don’t know what happened. It really is fixed now, though.
I always liked that Alan Badiou post. I’m reading Badiou and Zizek and Jameson etc now, for class.
I dunno if you watch any anime, but if you do, you’d be doing me a big favor if you watched The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, where the postmodern “science fiction isn’t real but I wish it was” narrator’s personal Truth Event occurs when he gets involved with the manic-depressive title character, and wrote something about it.
The production company’s follow-up show, Lucky Star, is the really postmodern one, but it’s tedious to watch if you don’t love anime because it is nothing but references to other shows and cultural ephemera.
Hey Subdee. I don’t watch much anime…but I will keep that recommendation in mind. Thanks!
I don’t watch that much anime (anymore) either, but Haruhi is really well done. Though maybe you’d be annoyed with the way philosophical concepts are sometimes presented in a simplified form so that they can be played for laughs (Talking Cat: “Listen, just because the sounds that are coming out of my mouth sound like human speech doesn’t mean I’m actually speaking to you. It could just be random gibberish, you know?” Narrator: “But the fact that you answered my question proves that you understand what I’m saying.” Talking Cat: “But that could be a coincidence. There’s no way for you to prove that we’re actually having a conversation.” Smiley-Faced Inscrutable Character: “That’s true, people can say things they don’t mean.” Narrator: “-_-” <– the punchline).