Understanding Disaster, Part 3: Evangelion and the World Apocalypse

Originally published August 2016

Commentary

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Stray Notes

  • Sorry if my Lacanian summary is unclear. I am not a psychology major, so I had to read and re-read a bit of Lacan to get a good idea of what is being presented. I hope I hit the major things.

  • I am hugely against different aspect ratios. Since I'm not talking about the cinematography of Evangelion, I decided to manually align 4:3 footage into a 16:9 frame. I hope this doesn't bother anyone.

  • Note, I am not a huge EVA fan, so I am more than certain many of you (probably most of you) are aware of the diagetic narrative particularities associated with the material.

Texts

  • Azuma, Hiroki. "Japan's Database Animals." Minnesota Press 2009, translated by Jonathan Abel and Shion Kono.

  • Bevacqua, Michael Lujan. "Lacan Avec Evangelion." Accessed July 28 2016, http://bit.ly/2aQpI46.

  • Duan, Charles. "Constructing the Self: Views of Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo." http://bit.ly/2avEGk1.

  • "Empty Gestures and Performatives." Lacan. July 20 2016, http://bit.ly/2aXbsHB.

  • Howard, Christopher. "The ethics of Sekai-kei: Reading Hiroki Azuma with Slavoj Zizek." Science Fiction Film and Television 7:3 (2014), 365-386.

  • "Jacques Lacan." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed June 20, 2016, http://stanford.io/2aHPb23.

  • "Jacques Lacan." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed June 21, 2016, http://bit.ly/2aXaNpl.

  • Lamarre, Thomas, Shion Kono, and Miyadai Shinji. "Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992." Mechademia 6 (2011), 231-258.

  • Malone, Paul, Madeline Ashby, and Thomas Lamarre. "Three Faces of Eva." Mechademia 5 (2010), 345-346.

  • Naylor, Alex, and Elyce Rae Helford. "Introduction: Science fiction anime: national, nationless, transnational, post/colonial." Science Fiction Film and Television 7:3 (2014), 309-314.

  • Napier, Susan. "When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' and 'Serial Experiments Lain'." Science Fiction Studies 29:3 (2002), 418-435.

  • Ortega, Mariana. "My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion." Mechademia 2: 10 (2007), 216-232.

  • Tamaki, Saito. "Beautiful Fighting Spirit." Minnesota Press 2006, translated J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson.

  • Tamaki, Saito. "Social Withdrawal - Adolescence without End." Minnesota Press 2013, translated by Jeffrey Angles.

  • Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypticism in Postwar Japanese Fiction." 2011, Thesis.

  • Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction." Palgrave MacMillan 2014.

  • Thomas, Stefanie. "Sekai-kei as Existentialist Narrative: Positioning Xenosaga within the Genre Framework." 2014, Thesis.

  • Thomas, Stefanie. "You Cannot See Yourself Unless There Are Others: Sekaikei as Exhortation of Societal Participation." The Phoenix Papers 2:2, 26-59.

Video

  • NGE (including End of Evangelion), Anime Movie and TV Show

  • Saikano, Anime

  • Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, OVA

  • Hoshi no Koe, Anime Movie

  • Akira, Anime Movie

  • Zero Hour, Documentary

  • A, Documentary

  • Kobe Earthquake ITN Footage

  • Kobe Earthquake Footage

  • How Japanese Viewed Immigration in the 90s

  • Case Study: Japan

  • The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade

Audio

  • Under Suspicion, Lee Rosevere

  • Hajimari e no Touhi (Escape to the beginning)

  • Borderline Case

  • Munashiki Nagare (The flow of emptiness)

  • Phantom from Space, by Kevin MacLeod

  • Irregular, by Kevin MacLeod

  • Komm, susser Tod Amaki shi yo, kitare

 
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