Butterfly Dreams
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This is the home of my various essays that have something to do with the world of anime. So far, I offer:
In Favor of Productive Debate. This page meditates on verbal violence in our online community and how to respond to it without becoming afraid to say anything at all.
The Arts of Interpretation. A companion page to Productive Debate, this one lays out what I think productive interpretation looks like, and why I say a lot of fans aren't being productive in their analyses.
Hero/ine as Idol. Inspired by some of my leisure-research, when it struck me just how similar some of the anime heroes and heroines are to the figure of the Japanese idol. This is a fairly short essay.
No Conclusion. This one reflects on just what the terms no climax, no conclusion, no content might refer to.
Copyright Policies For Other People's Images. My reflections on this subject, and my own policy.
Conceptual Categories. A meditation on the difficulty of translating certain Japanese terms into English.
Signifiers. Some notes on common symbolic short-hand in anime and manga.
Intimacy. An essay tracing out some shapes of intimacy in Japanese literature, and how they differ from US theories of the same.
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Last modified: 11/16/06
First Posted: 6/01
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