Baryon Posadas
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Baryon Posadas
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· Jul 29
My copy of Techno-orientalism 2.0, which includes my essay on the animated adaptations of the novels of Project Itoh, arrived today.
The state of my desk as I try to get more grading done.
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The state of my desk as I try to get more grading done.
Going through the usual course approval process here and getting confused about how I'm somehow getting asked how knowledge will be conveyed in a seminar/small class discussion format if it is not in the form of a lecture.
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Going through the usual course approval process here and getting confused about how I'm somehow getting asked how knowledge will be conveyed in a seminar/small class discussion format if it is not in the form of a lecture.
Rereading Ueno Toshiya's Metal Suits book and noting his early adoption of the term "Japanoid" in his discussion of techno-orientalism. Weird how this "-noid" construction (westoid, diasporoid) has seen a revival with a more derogatory connotation now.
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Rereading Ueno Toshiya's Metal Suits book and noting his early adoption of the term "Japanoid" in his discussion of techno-orientalism. Weird how this "-noid" construction (westoid, diasporoid) has seen a revival with a more derogatory connotation now.
Looks like I will be in Montreal in late February for ACLA.
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Looks like I will be in Montreal in late February for ACLA.
Watching the outside while I grade exams.
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Watching the outside while I grade exams.
My partner just informed me that there is this place called "Hot Pot Restaurant" in Toronto, and it's a Jamaican jerk chicken place.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My partner just informed me that there is this place called "Hot Pot Restaurant" in Toronto, and it's a Jamaican jerk chicken place.
The creature on my desk today.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The creature on my desk today.
Tickets booked for this weekend.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Tickets booked for this weekend.
An interesting (if perhaps discipline dependent) metric of research impact that's not, to my knowledge, currently quantified would not just be citation counts of publications, but how frequently these publications show up on both undergrad and postgrad course syllabi.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
An interesting (if perhaps discipline dependent) metric of research impact that's not, to my knowledge, currently quantified would not just be citation counts of publications, but how frequently these publications show up on both undergrad and postgrad course syllabi.
For some reason, every new device I've purchased recently has come with a free set of Bluetooth earphones. Are they having trouble selling these things or something?
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
For some reason, every new device I've purchased recently has come with a free set of Bluetooth earphones. Are they having trouble selling these things or something?
Final day of teaching done for the semester. Now to make like this cat and hide in my cave.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Final day of teaching done for the semester. Now to make like this cat and hide in my cave.
Mirror shenanigans.
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Mirror shenanigans.
West Kowloon HSR station.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
West Kowloon HSR station.
For some reason I cannot discern, the cats always get very interested in what I'm up to every time I attach my glucose monitors.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
For some reason I cannot discern, the cats always get very interested in what I'm up to every time I attach my glucose monitors.
Too early in the morning to be wandering around Nathan Road.
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Too early in the morning to be wandering around Nathan Road.
Sometimes I wonder whether I unconsciously agree to take on more academic service work precisely so I have an excuse to put off my own writing.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Sometimes I wonder whether I unconsciously agree to take on more academic service work precisely so I have an excuse to put off my own writing.
Snuck inside my closet again.
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Snuck inside my closet again.
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The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
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The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.
Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have a...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Callisto the cat has decided that my mouse cursor is her new obsession.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Callisto the cat has decided that my mouse cursor is her new obsession.
I keep repeatedly (three times now in the last week) receiving this one email from a prospective postgraduate student inquiring about the possibility of working with me. Except the topic is so wildly out of area. On top of that, it's addressed to an altogether different person.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I keep repeatedly (three times now in the last week) receiving this one email from a prospective postgraduate student inquiring about the possibility of working with me. Except the topic is so wildly out of area. On top of that, it's addressed to an altogether different person.
This talk of 50-year mortgages in the US is vaguely reminiscent of 1980s bubble economy era Japan with its then infamous multi-generational mortgages. At the same time, the pervading cultural discourse remains one that echoes the later lost decades era.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This talk of 50-year mortgages in the US is vaguely reminiscent of 1980s bubble economy era Japan with its then infamous multi-generational mortgages. At the same time, the pervading cultural discourse remains one that echoes the later lost decades era.
The cats are being nosy neighbors.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The cats are being nosy neighbors.
Today's feline shenanigans.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today's feline shenanigans.
