Mon blog doctoral en français- Rewinding Ariane’s Thread…
- Recension – Tirs croisés: La laïcité à l’épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman
- Vraie fausse Jeanne et fausse vraie Jeanne ou la confusion intellectuelle
- Le mythe de la nécessité de mythes nationaux: un autre exemple de paresse intellectuelle
- Une terre d’adoption pour réfugiés de tous bords
- Le Temps | Comment faire l’histoire coloniale?
I’m also on:
- My bibliography on citeUlike
- Check out what I’m or have been reading recently
- Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) by Anne Allison
- Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age by Henry Jenkins
- Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
- Convaincre sans manipuler : Apprendre à argumenter by Philippe Breton
- Les séries télévisées: L'avenir du cinéma ? by Jean-Pierre Esquenazi
- My blog on MyAnimeList (MAL)
- My anime collection on MAL
- My links on diigo
Star Blazer in America – a tribute
This was brought to my attention by two of my contacts on Facebook who are truly dedicated to classic animes, especially those that arrived in the US in the 1970′s-1980′s. I would say that Star Blazer is for the 30-years old US anime fans what Captain Harlock is for the 30-years old or something French-speaking … Read more
Call for Essays – Spider-Man, Spider-Women, and Webspinners: Critical Perspectives (collection) (via Blog dell’Associazione Culturale Fichu)
Spider-Man, Spider-Women, and Webspinners: Critical Perspectives Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Robert Moses Peaslee When Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first penned a short story about a young man named Peter Parker who gets bit by a radioactive spider and becomes the hero known as Spider-Man, little did they know they would be creating … Read more
Ph.D. Update #5: Summary of my Ph.D. project as of 10 June 2010
So, here is finally the English translation of the latest summary of my dissertation! This summary is the result of an attempt to make the heart of my Ph.D. project clearer and more accessible to all the people who are contributing, either directly or indirectly, to my research. This new synthesis was motivated by my … Read more
The Dazzle and the Dragon – The history of manga and animes in Europe
It is with great pleasure that I advertise the recent release of the English translation of Marco Pellitteri‘s latest book: The Dragon and the Dazzle: Models, strategies and identities of Japanese Imagination, edited by Tunué. Although I have only started reading the Italian original version (I have never really learned Italian, which means that I … Read more
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CFPs in media studies
This post relays several CFP announcements for these coming weeks, in the field of media studies, new technologies and globalization: 1. Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World > CFP deadline: 1 June 2010. 2. Europe and the Media – new developments in social theory and research > CFP deadline: 31 May … Read more
CFP: New Groups and New Methods? The Ethnography and Qualitative Research of Online Groups
This was received through the [Medianthro] mailing list. Special Issue (volume 4, number 2, 2011) of “Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa” (Ethnography and Qualitative Research) Edited By: Stefano De Paoli & Maurizio Teli Online groups, also called “virtual worlds”, “virtual communities”, or “digital collectives”, are those social groups whose members’ interactions are mediated primarily by the … Read more
Reading report #3: Anime DVD and placelessness
I’m now reading the textbook entitled Doing Cultural Studies, The Story of the Sony Walkman, edited by Paul du Gay et al. One key aspect of the Cultural Studies approach they highlight in the second section of the book, is the importance of describing the economic and technical circumstances out of which is born a … Read more
Time of Eve 1 – Official Time of Eve 1 Anime Videos
Thanks to a member of the Soleil Romand Forum, a Swiss-French group of popular Japanese entertainment fans, I have discovered a new expression: ONA – Original Net Animation. For those familiar with the acronym OAV (Original Animation Video), this should appear as a natural transposition of practices around home video entertainment into the electronic space … Read more
Ph.D. front update #4: Vinyl DVD
As part of my dissertation, I’m now watching some animes which I didn’t know before and were recommended to me by people I’m in touch with for my fieldwork. One of these is the famous Cowboy Bebop series and I was very lucky to be lent the Dybex Deluxe limited edition box. When I opened … Read more
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