{"id":6768,"date":"2015-12-15T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:00:02","slug":"your-happening-world-september-24th-through-december-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/12\/15\/your-happening-world-september-24th-through-december-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (September 24th through December 15th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eyeforaneyepiece.wordpress.com\/bibliography\/\">Bibliography | Chromatic Aberration Everywhere<\/a> &#8211; As I tend to read a lot of more &ldquo;academic&rdquo; texts when it comes to studying anime, fandom, and interpretation, I thought it might be a good idea to throw up a list of all the things I&rsquo;ve either read\/seen so that anyone else interested in these types of ideas has a place to start.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/japans-cute-army?mbid=nl_151201_Daily&amp;CNDID=27577471&amp;spMailingID=8305577&amp;spUserID=NDkxNzk3MjMyNjES1&amp;spJobID=820119421&amp;spReportId=ODIwMTE5NDIxS0\">Japan&#8217;s Cute Army &#8211; The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; This stressful, ongoing debate fuels the seeming paradox of an &ldquo;endearing&rdquo; military force. In Japan, where indirect communication is highly valued, cute illustrations have long played the role of tension-breakers and mediators in situations of conflict. Thus kawaii mascots, whether miniskirted girls or bunny-rabbit decoy launchers, are both a reflection of pop-cultural trends and a way to defuse the very touchy issues surrounding the military&rsquo;s undeniable presence.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jofreeman.com\/joreen\/tyranny.htm\">The Tyranny of Stuctureless<\/a> &#8211; This means that to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an &quot;objective&quot; news story, &quot;value-free&quot; social science, or a &quot;free&quot; economy. A &quot;laissez faire&quot; group is about as realistic as a &quot;laissez faire&quot; society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can be so easily established because the idea of &quot;structurelessness&quot; does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones. Similarly &quot;laissez faire&quot; philosophy did not prevent the economically powerful from establishing control over wages, prices, and distribution of goods; it only prevented the government from doing so. Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rnQBF2CIygg\">A Piece Of Toast &#8211; YouTube<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicseminar.org\/2015\/09\/otaku-philosophy\/\">Otaku Philosophy | Public Seminar<\/a> &#8211; Its origins are in cultural forms imported from the United States after the war. &ldquo;The history of otaku culture is one of adaptation &ndash; of how to &lsquo;domesticate&rsquo; American culture&hellip; Otaku may very well be heirs to Edo culture, but the two are by no means connected by a continuous line. Between the otaku and Japan lies the United States.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bibliography | Chromatic Aberration Everywhere &#8211; As I tend to read a lot of more &ldquo;academic&rdquo; texts when it comes to studying anime, fandom, and interpretation, I thought it might be a good idea to throw up a list of all the things I&rsquo;ve either read\/seen so that anyone else interested in these types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[2494,2349,870,2457,2348,2361,1934,2347,2439,2356,2472],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linky","tag-anime","tag-cultural-philosophy","tag-fandom","tag-feminism","tag-japan","tag-kawaii","tag-manga","tag-otaku","tag-politics","tag-structure","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}