By Phillip E. Wegner Tricksters or fakes, assistants or ‘toons, they are the exemplars of the coming community. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community In this special issue…
By Matthew Stoddard1 To reawaken, in the midst of a privatized and psychologizing society, obsessed with commodities and bombarded by the ideological slogans of big business,…
By Anthony Lioi Our most important task at the present moment is to build castles in the sky. –Lewis Mumford, The Story of Utopia (1922) Utopia has been…
By Phillip E. Wegner What if it were the other way around, however? What if it were the failures of socialism, better still, of socialists and…
By John Leavey Preliminary Prelims (1) All of the “images” within this piece are taken from Princess Mononoke, a Miyazaki Hayao Film, Studio Ghibli, 1997, DVD. (2)…
By Megan Condis Balcerzak, Scott and Jason Sperb, eds. Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Vol. 1. London: Wallflower Press, 2009.…
By Tania Darlington Azuma, Hiroki. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals. Trans. Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2009. Print. Students of Japanese…
By Tof Eklund Power, Natsu Onoda. God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga. University of Mississippi, 2009. Print. Natsu Onoda Power’s God…
Megan Condis Megan Condis is a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation project is about drawn women…