iagomago
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Editoria, sintetizzatori a tempo perso e anticapitalismo.
- Comment on Urasawa is Genius 2 days ago:
I had this conversation with many a friend. It seems that a lot of people fail to see the distinction in how Urasawa decides to construct the (sometimes excessively) over-complicated structure of his work. The fact is that the man is, at heart, a postmodernist: he cares less about traditional tropes such as character development and is rather much more interested in exploring various point of views of a single event, relating the events of his fiction to the real world and inciting the reader to form his own opinion on a subject, a story or a person. I personally love it, being the rive-gauche comp lit post-grad that I am; but I see how it might not be for everyone. ESPECIALLY because the man takes his sweet time in developing plot points. I’d say Monster is by far his most “standardized” work, as in that it’s quite understandable to see the evolution of the MC while keeping the eyes on the plot. But things like Billy Bat or 20th Century Boys, imho, pushed the manga medium to a whole another level that we’re starting to see as vibrantly influent and foretolding just now with some of the more high-brow stuff made by people like Inio Asano, who are more interested in atypical structures and influences external to the classical manga world.
- Comment on Thricoloma I found today in the woods... 2 months ago:
It wasn’t that dry to the touch, actually! I was out on an excursion for a mycology class and one of the teachers identified it. Apparently it’s a native species around here
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- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 5 months ago:
Durov has been blacklisted in Russia because he refused to cooperate with Putin’s government on several occasions.
- Comment on It's okay, Buddy 7 months ago:
taught me once and for all that while death might be always near, a fear that’s constantly devouring our lives and paralysing them to the point where it feels like our deepest, inner self is a husk shell of what we once were, we can still find the reason of our existence in the joys of living a life that’s devoted in equal part to mystery, sensuality, knowledge and wonder. And it says this in the most democratic way you could think: everyone is entitled and deserving of the complexity of life.
- Comment on It's okay, Buddy 7 months ago:
never found Joyce to be pretentious (the man knew what he was doing, and definitely succeeded in doing so) or obtuse (I mean, how many writers you can think of that could pull out the mastery of language and human sensibility out of nowhere like he does). I might be biased because I believe Ulysses saved my life: it’s definitely one of the funniest, most touching, humane books I have ever had the pleasure to read. I’d push Ogre to keep up with the good work.
- Comment on Is "True Detective" season 2 bad, or just bad compared to season 1? 1 year ago:
But you’d miss on Season 3 that way, and that’s the best one out of all of them!
