the author makes the case that the anime Otaku were already post-narrative by 2000. That is, they are trained like animals to react to "attributes" of characters and settings. All it takes is a girl with a set of animal ears.
This paper has to be sharpened into bite-sized pieces that would fit into a tweet or two if it's going to be the basis for intervention.
I was thinking this weekend that the thing about memes is that they spread: they don't have to communicate anything in the ordinary sense, they don't have to serve any purpose, they just have to spread.
When I was in elementary school I remember a student who was provoked acting out what I think was a scene from a movie where he took off his jacket and said "I'm taking off that jacket, it means I'm really serious" and thought at the time, and I still do, that somebody might kill somebody else just because they saw some image that resonated with them.
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the author makes the case that the anime Otaku were already post-narrative by 2000. That is, they are trained like animals to react to "attributes" of characters and settings. All it takes is a girl with a set of animal ears.
This paper has to be sharpened into bite-sized pieces that would fit into a tweet or two if it's going to be the basis for intervention.
I was thinking this weekend that the thing about memes is that they spread: they don't have to communicate anything in the ordinary sense, they don't have to serve any purpose, they just have to spread.
When I was in elementary school I remember a student who was provoked acting out what I think was a scene from a movie where he took off his jacket and said "I'm taking off that jacket, it means I'm really serious" and thought at the time, and I still do, that somebody might kill somebody else just because they saw some image that resonated with them.