Otaku
ByHiroki Azuma,Jonathan E. Abel(Translator),+1 more
2001 • 144 pages

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470 books

Anime Manga

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Count_ZeroSupporter
Berserk Volume 27
Berserk Volume 31
Berserk Volume 28
Berserk Volume 34
Berserk Volume 30
Berserk Volume 35

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19 books

Psychology

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Judy
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Why Do I Do That? Psychological Defense Mechanisms and the Hidden Ways They Shape Our lives
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Far from the Tree
The Power of Myth

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43 books

Philosophy

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Judy
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Believing Bullshit
The Metaphysical Club
Thinking the Twentieth Century

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10 books

Sociology

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Judy
Far from the Tree
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
White Trash
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Coming of Age in Samoa

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1 book

Phi

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Judy
Otaku

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26 books

Fandom

CountZero
Count_ZeroSupporter
The Elusive Shift
The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers
Role-Playing Mastery
Playing at the World, 2E, Volume 1
Supergods

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389 books

Non Fiction

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
Christopher and His Kind
Every Song Ever
The Talent Code
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography

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30 books

Technology And Gaming

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
Hidden Figures
Otaku
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Play Anything
Playing at the World, 2E, Volume 1
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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8 books

Philosophy I Think Is Ok

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john smith
Simulacra and Simulation
Otaku
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Necropolitics
Postscript on the Societies of Control
The Anime Machine
Critique of the Gotha Programme

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7 books

art and anime

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candy
Media Theory in Japan
The Moe Manifesto: An Insider's Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime, and Gaming
Atlas Mnemosyne
A Obra de Arte na Era de Sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica - Volume 1. Coleção L&PM Pocket
Otaku

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29 books

To Buy

Kinbur
James
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
A Fool's Renaissance
Ghosts of My Life
Generative Energy: Protecting and Restoring the Wholeness of Life
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
The Trial

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263 books

Japanese

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Boku no Bungeibu ni Bitch ga Irunante Arienai
No Longer Human
A Personal Matter
Black Rain
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Underground
Kitchen

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125 books

Critical Theory

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secondbestgirl
The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Media Theory in Japan
Orientalism
Otaku
Critique of Cynical Reason
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

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77 books

Sociology

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Bowling Alone
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
The Culture Industry
Manufacturing Consent
Orientalism
Otaku

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49 books

Anthropology

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Offensive Films
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Manufacturing Consent
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan

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232 books

Formally Studied

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secondbestgirl
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd
Notes from Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl
The Lottery
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

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73 books

Philosophy

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secondbestgirl
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Manufacturing Consent
SCUM Manifesto
Orientalism

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238 books

Film Wanttoread

triales
triales
Film Studies: An Introduction
Film, a sound art
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood
The Black Guy Dies First
Vampire Movies

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39 books

Otaku Studies

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オタク学入門
Otaku
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
Media Theory in Japan