Category: Wider issues and society
The Timeless Timeliness of One Battle After Another
Some short notes on a film where history accumulates like sediment—where the dead ends of the past pile up layer-by-layer without ever “moving on.”
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep
An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.
Notes on “Otaku”
Every conversation about “otaku culture” begins from the assumption that there is nothing at stake. This is wrong to its core.
Catch-up: Nine book reviews
Nine book reviews to catch up on what I’ve been reading and enjoying while taking a bit of a break from blogging.
The crisis of straightness
Intimacy is on the sharp decline among other-sex attracted persons, but not same-sex attracted persons. The fundamental assumption held for generation upon generation that men and women have an unmovable need to have sex with one another is being rapidly exposed as too simplistic.