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Anime Relations: Machikado no Märchen

Do you think there are angels watching over us?

Do they count the lies we tell?
The women we've known?

Anime Relations: Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster

Resin dagger with preserved tick
Baghdad fue implement
Jade-coated Monkey teeth

Hyena jawbone

Drowned at Walden Pond

Where a horse has been standing and where you belong

Anime Relations: Perfect Blue

Anime Relations: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu

Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill,
Alas, he died of alcohol.

And Li Po also died drunk.
He tried to embrace a moon
In the Yellow River.

Ezra Pound, 1885-1972


Encountering magnificently flavored food, the spleen, stomach not cooperating
Enjoying drink the whole night, then finding the wine vessel empty
Winning at gambling; running out of lamp oil; a difficult search
Being unable to lead a donkey, horse
Ignoring a back itch while a superior sizes you up
Dredging a well where a guy pissed and shit in a hurry
Wearing unreliable clothing
A fan not dispersing flies, mosquitoes
Being unable to parry the affections of a poor relation

Li Shangyin, 813–858

Anime Relations: Shinseiki Evangelion, Koukaku Kidoutai, Akira, FLCL, Serial Experiments Lain, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor 2 the Movie, Sidonia no Kishi

Primary
H. Azuma, 1996 / Anime or Something Like It: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anno)
https://archive.is/HFXeA

M. Broderick, 2007 / Neon Genesis Evangelion as Millennarian Mecha
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anno)
https://archive.is/WJRD

Brian Ruh / The Robots from Takkun’s Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL
FLCL (Anno)
http://docdro.id/VbliQz2

J. Orbaugh, 2002 / Sex and the Single Cyborg
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anno)
Gunm (Fukutomi)
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
http://docdro.id/tWx8G4y

J. Napier, 2002 / When The Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anno)
Serial Experiments Lain (Nakamura, ABe)
https://archive.is/jkkd6

B. Ruh / Producing Transnational Cult Media: Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell in Circulation
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anno)
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
http://docdro.id/n7TY4ej

B. Ruh, 2000 / Liberating Cels: Forms of the Female in Japanese Cyberpunk Animation
Bubblegum Crisis
Ghost In the Shell (Oshii)
Serial Experiments Lain (Nakamura, ABe)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727121707/http://www.animeresearch.com/Articles/LiberatingCels/index.htm

B. Ruh, 2002 / Hacking Your Own Ghost: Mythology in the Science Fiction Films of Oshii Mamoru as Sites of Resistance
Mobile Police Patlabor: The Movie 2 (Oshii)
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
Avalon (Oshii)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120204084220/http://www.animeresearch.com/Articles/Oshii/hackingghost.html

Carl Silvio / Refiguring the Radical Cyborg in Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
http://docdro.id/3KoJbTD

S. A. Le / Modern Ghosts, Postmodern Shells:Ghost in the Shell and the Crisis of the Human Subject
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
https://web.archive.org/web/20031208033759/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/2607/modern_ghosts.html

T. Ueno / Japanimation and Techno-Orientalism
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
https://archive.is/HXdhP

W. K. Yuen / On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell , and Hong Kong's Cityscape
Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
https://archive.is/3yEuq

K. Johnson, 2014 / Manga in the Anthropocene: Notes Toward a Cyberpunk Ecology
Akira (Katsuhiro)
Ghost in the Shell (Masamune)
Sidonia no Kishi (Tsutomu)
http://docdro.id/U5Q2Zbo

B. Ruh, 2014 / The Comfort and Disquiet of Transmedia Horror in Hagurushi: When They Cry
Higurashi no naku koro ni
https://archive.is/G1xD3

Meta
H. Azuma, 2001 / Superflat Japanese Postmodernity
https://web.archive.org/web/20030205094730/http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~hazuma/en/texts/superflat_en1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20030218210018/http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~hazuma/en/texts/superflat_en2.html

B. Ruh / Conceptualizing Anime and the Database Fantasyscape
http://docdro.id/VZyYC4j

B. Ruh, 2002 / Unoriginal Trash or the Future of Manga?: The Role of Parody Dōjinshi
https://web.archive.org/web/20030228074545/http://www.animeresearch.com/Articles/doujin/doujinshi.html

M. Steinberg, 2004 / Otaku Consumption, Superflat Art and the Return to Edo
http://docdro.id/cEJARIi

S. Kinsella, 1998 / Amateur Manga Subculture and the Otaku Panic
https://archive.is/LVc3

S. Kinsella, 1999 / Adult manga: Pro-Establishment Pop-Culture and the New Politics in the 1990s
https://archive.is/KDHf2

J. Hatcher / Of Otaku and Fansubs
http://docdro.id/W6vQUEi

R. Mescallado, 2000 / Otaku Nation
https://archive.is/ffpyg

J. Lent, 2000 / Animation in Asia: appropriation, reinterpretation, and adoption or adaptation
https://archive.is/eFaZ


Auxiliary
F Guattari, 2009 / Soft Subversions: 1977-1985
http://docdro.id/U4bti56

G. Deleuze / Postscript on Control Societies
http://docdro.id/HEi9urP

Cavallaro / Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Gibson
http://www.flawedart.net/courses/articles/Cyberpunk_and_Cyberculture__Science_Fiction_and_the_Work%20(1).pdf

Detritus
Anime/Manga Web Essay Archive
http://www.corneredangel.com/amwess/acad_6.html
Critical Research Database
http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=70646
De Paul SF Studies
http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/
azuma interview
https://www.japansociety.org/resources/content/2/0/5/4/documents/azuma_mcgray%20interview.pdf
www.mechademia.org
https://concordia.academia.edu/MarcSteinberg
Anime Research / Brain Ruh
https://web.archive.org/web/20120204084405/http://www.animeresearch.com/index.html

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Hiroki Azuma / Otaku: Database Animals
U of M / Mechademia 1-10
Steven T. Brown / Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Steven T. Brown / Cinema Anime
Orbaugh: Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis (Cinema Anime)
Otsuka Eiji / World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative (Md. 5)
Takayuki Tatsumi / Full Metal Apache
Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan
U of M / Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams
Isolde Standish / Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance
Brian Ruh / Stray Dog of Anime: Mamoru Oshii
J. S. Napier / Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke
W. H. K. Chun / Control and Freedom - Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
S. Pointon / Transcultural Orgasm as Apocalypse: Urotsukidoji: The Legend of the Overfiend

Anime Relations: Koukaku Kidoutai

Capital only retains anthropological characteristics as a symptom of underdevelopment;

A hyperstition has four characteristics: They function as (1) an element of effective culture that makes itself real, (2) as a fictional quality functional as a time-travelling device, (3) as coincidence intensifiers and (4) as a call to the Old Ones.

Modernity marks itself out as hot culture, captured by a spiraling involvement with entropy deviations camouflaging an invasion from the future, launched back out of terminated security against everything that inhibits the meltdown process.

http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/sacred-violence-the-hyperstitional-order-of-capitalism/

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/deleuze-and-guattari-rhizomatic-writing-abstract-machines-and-social-critique/

During the later part of the 18th Century amidst the Industrial Revolution, developments in the coal and iron industries ended thousands of years reliance on the life preserving rhythm of the sun in replacement with the dread ticking of the clock. Thus modern capitalism embarked on a two hundred year long insurrection against the creator of all life on earth.

http://docdro.id/fVPp2Cr

http://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/reza-negarestani-drafting-the-inhuman.pdf