Lots of readings related to my research proposal. Finished Boellstorff’s et al handbook, which I like so much. And I was struck by how good MacDougall is. I’ve got enough input now and started writing the literature review. So I will continue writing intensively for the next few days.
Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Stockholm for work, which included an amazing dinner at Teatergrillen. I also had lunch with former and probably future Berliner A and saw two exhibitions at Moderna Museet and ArkDes: Mud Muses – a rant about technology and Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World. The former was so so, with the exceptions of two videos by Akbar Padamsee and the Otolith Group that I watched in full and really enjoyed.
I had to skip a planned “film evening” on Okinawa at Arsenal today in order to create my presentation on Superflat for next week’s class in Artistic practices. I also continued transcribing an interview.
I didn’t watch any anime this week. But! I was contacted by a new informant and am pursuing an intimate email interview with him. At one point he referred to Wataru.
Readings
Images, race and representation
Unit 6: Zora – the ‘First’ in her field
- Charnov, Elaine S. 1998. “The Performative Visual Anthropology Films of Zora Neale Hurston.” Film Criticism 23 (1): 38–47.
Master thesis
Topic
- Kinsella, Sharon. 2000. Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
- “Introduction.” Pp. 1–19
- Chapter 4. “Amateur Manga Subculture and the otaku panic.” Pp. 102–38.
- Chapter 5. “The Movement Against Manga.” Pp. 139–61.
- Otomo, Rio. 2015. “Politics of Utopia: Fantasy, Pornography, and Boys Love.” In Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker, 141–52. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Method
- Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T.L. Taylor. 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Chapter 11: “Writing up, presenting, and publishing ethnographic research.” Pp. 182–95.
- Chapter 12: “Conclusion: Arrivals and new departures.” Pp. 196–200.
- MacDougall, David. 2006. The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- “Introduction.” Pp. 1–8.
- Madill, Anna. 2018. “Rotten Girl on Rotten Girl: Boys’ Love ‘Research.’” In Researching Sex and Sexualities: Methodological Reflections, edited by Charlotte Morris, Paul Boyce, Andrea Cornwall, Hannah Frith, and Yingying Huang, 263–78. London: Zed Books.
Other
Exhibition
- Moderna Museet:
- Mud Muses – a rant about technology
- Otolith Group: Anathema (2011, 37 min)
- Akbar Padamsee: Syzygy (1970, 16 min)
- Atsuko Tanaka
- Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
- Mud Muses – a rant about technology
- ArkDes: Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World
Film
- The Matrix (1999, 136 min)
Video
- Tokyo Llama: How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One (32 min)
- Wouter Corduwener: I gave strangers €5 if I didn’t speak their language (multilingual bet part 2)
- Cladio Juliano: Clip Studio Tabmate Review
- Simone Giertz:
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