Post-Historical Art: Outlanders Virtual Memory of Transportable Selves By Myron Jackson Outlander is a proto-dramatic hybrid of history, culture, medicine, and love told and performed in literary and cinematic form through the experiential memory of Claire Beauchamp. Akin to Marcel Proust’s six-volume work In Search of Lost Time, the novel and TV series spans…
Wally West and Heidegger in the Tower of Fate By Matthew William Brake For those of us who grew up watching Batman the Animated Series and a slew of other animated shows based on that continuity, affectionately referred to by fans as the “Timmverse” of “Diniverse” (after two of the main creative influences, Bruce…
Bojack Horseman and the Danger of the Partially Examined Life Tessa Brunnenmeyer and Kristopher G. Phillips Bojack Horseman is a Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Netflix cartoon project that is in many ways deeply confusing. The show follows the titular character, a washed-up former sit-com actor who happens to be a cartoon horse. Bojack Horseman offers…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS PHILOSOPHY & POPULAR CULTURE AREA POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION 2017 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE WHERE: Marriott Marina, San Diego WHEN: Wednesday, April 12 to Saturday, April 15, 2017 For information on PCA/ACA: http://www.pcaaca.org For conference information: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference/ DATABASE OPENS FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 1, 2016 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2016 All…
When Twin Peaks first arrived on television in 1990, it signalled a substantial shift in American television, featuring a morass of conflicting techniques and traits, from soap opera-ish theatrics, metafictional comedy, and supernatural elements which would go on to influence other shows such as The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Our sense of self may just be malleable enough to where we could come to identify (at least temporarily) with the characteristics of online profiles; the more others respond to us as the characters we’ve created, the more we might come to internalize a sense of self that resembles the character. While this does not mean that we’ll likely ever mistake ourselves consciously for the character, we might temporarily forget (when talking to others) that the “us” others see is anyone other than “us in RL.”
Personhood in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood By Darian Shump Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood follows the adventures of Edward Elric, a State Alchemist employed by the military of Amestris, and Alphonse, his younger brother. After an aborted attempt to resurrect their mother through an illegal form of alchemy, the pair finds themselves on the brink of death.…
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J. Edward Hackett, editor of House of Cards and Philosophy: Underwood’s Republic has written about Season 4. Warning: spoilers. Click here to read all about it.
30 Years of Master of Puppets and Philosophy “Honesty is my only excuse” By William Irwin It was 30 years ago today, March 3, 1986, and I was about to turn sixteen. Actually, I remember hearing “Battery” for the first time on my friend Joe’s boom box weeks earlier. He had taped it off…
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