Baryon Posadas
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Science Fiction, Empire, Japan
Finally: 9. Arrival 10. Lathe of Heaven 11. Wandering Earth 12. Ghost in the Shell
Also co-teaching a course on science fiction cinema this coming fall semester. Offhand, the film list for this one still feels a bit too Anglocentric for me, but it might have to do for now. 1. Invention for Destruction 2. War of the Worlds 3. Nineteen Eighty-Four 4. Gattaca
Finally, on techno-orientalism, globalization, and inter-Asian cultural flows: 9. Cloud Atlas 10. Boarding Gate 11. 2046.
Next, on war and representation, as well as diaspric mobilities: 5. Hiroshima Mon Amour 6. Man in the High Castle 7. The Farewell 8. Retour à Séoul
I think I have my film list more or less set for the updates to this course, barring any last minute impulsive changes of my mind. First off, around topics of authenticity, performance, and sexuality. 1. Sans Soleil 2. Memoirs of a Geisha 3. The Pillow Book 4. M. Butterfly
For a course on the images of Asia in (non-Asian) cinema, should I go with Assayas' Boarding Gate or Michael Mann's Blackhat for a unit on post-cinematic affect and aesthetics, transnational networks, and the infrastructures of globalization? Or both?
Callisto's new thing is stealing her sister's spot. Her modus operandi is to plop on top of Io and roll around until she gets annoyed and sleeps somewhere else.
I was trying to find bibliographic info on something I once cited before only to realize that my first book has vaguely trans flag colors (the shade of blue might be a touch too dark though?)
Sometimes, the color of the broth on these noodles come out just right.
The cats plotting before we replace the foam floor titles that they previously tore apart.
Today marks the first year since we adopted these two walking balls of fur.
Looking forward to reading the rest of this series. D&D novels were probably formative to how I ended up becoming an English major, and eventually via a slightly roundabout way, a Japan Studies scholar. What's left of the old collection still sitting in my mother's back in the old country:
Finally managed to locate my scan of the 『日本科学小説年表』that got lost in the depths of my improperly organized drive folders. The book is basically what appears to be a quite comprehensive year-by-year list of every work of science fiction published in Japan since 1868.
Impossible to finish folding your laundry when one cat sits on your clothes and the other sits in the closet.
Increasingly tempted to write something about this odd fascination for the idea of "Kowloon" in so much Japanese media. Kowloon's Gate, Kowloon Generic Romance, Kowloon's Curse, etc. Of particular note is the seeming conflation of the Kowloon walled city with Kowloon as a whole.
Watched the live action version of Kowloon Generic Romance in the plane. On the one hand, it is yet another live action version of a manga whose raison d'être seems questionable. On the other hand, it does seem oddly apt that the series has so many different versions of itself.
They have a Jollibee on campus at the National University of Singapore.