Sorry you can’t see the pictures that make up the visual portion of the presentation, but above is the Keeper: a key image from Kaichiro Morikawa’s book “Learning from Akihabara – The Birth of a Personapolis” (Gentosha, 2003).
Post-humans, put on yer thinking caps! Here’s the complete audio of my “Otaku Power – Trivia, Desire, and Transformation” lecture as delivered at Temple University Japan Campus on March 13, 2009. Thanks to the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies and the TUJC anime club for inviting me over, making it happen, and for the hot slices afterwards.
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Good overview, thanks for posting it.
Posted by: Gilles Poitras | March 15, 2009 at 07:43 AM
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Posted by: hillsy | March 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Great lecture, and it was awesome to meet you!
Posted by: Adamu | March 15, 2009 at 08:43 PM
Hey man, this was really awesome. I love learning the social implications of otaku culture and anime in general
Posted by: tissuekins | March 15, 2009 at 09:37 PM
Thanks for recording this and posting here.
Posted by: Casey | April 13, 2009 at 01:32 AM