Anime Pulse has a podcast, and a transcription for those who prefer reading to hearing, of last month’s symposium at MIT titled “Violence and Desire in Japanese Popular Culture.”
The people and topics covered:
Professor Anne Allison (Duke University) on Pokemon capitalism and desire
John O’Donnell (founder, Central Park Media) on Otaku entrepreneurs and anime distribution in the US
Professor Ian Condry (MIT) on fansubs, piracy and global media
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
Not that surprising… I believe MIT has a pretty sizeable anime club… and being a producer of top nerds in this country…
Yes, as a matter of fact I’m one of them—I did my first year of a PhD in atmospheric science there before dropping out to take care of my kids.
MIT’s also got a thriving “fan-culture” studies group, too.