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factolvictor

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Social Anthropologist, PhD. Edgerunner. A-Wing Fighter Pilot. Keeper of the Old Holocron. Servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.

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I’m listening to this song now while reading Star Wars Thrawn. No, it’s not a direct allusion to the Thrawn of Rebels (because there it seems to me a little different from the books), but it definitely helped me get in the mood.

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https://music.apple.com/br/album/epilogue-and-end-credits/1743341284?i=1743342661

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@madcollector I read the first 50 pages and I also got the feeling it’s Rebels’ Thrawn other than the Thrawn Trilogy. I found some minor inconsistencies (I think, but it’s too early, I need to read more), but so far so good.

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@madcollector The first point that seemed strange to me was Thrawn’s meeting with Palpatine. It was too easy and it doesn’t make sense. Why does Palpatine want to meet with a random prisoner, among many that the Empire does every day? Only if there is something related to the Jedi or Sith in the region where Thrawn comes from (I don’t know if the Outbound Flight was canonized). It still seems very unlikely.

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I finally started reading the origin tale of Mitth’raw’nuruodo! He’s one of my favorite Star Wars characters since the Thrawn Trilogy. It’s good to be back.

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For Star Wars fans, I just posted my review of the YA book Path of Deceit, from Phase II of Star Wars High Republic on Goodreads. I would like to know your impressions: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6585279706

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I've been struggling with Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space for so many years... I don't know why, but I've never finished the first chapter. I don't know if it's the pace of the characters, and I do love the main theme (archaeology, space exploration, etc).

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I just finished reading Batman - The Long Halloween. It is without a doubt a masterpiece. I’ve said it here before, but the duo Jeoh Loeb and Tim Sale is very very good. Sale’s drawings are very expressive and authorial. I was quite shocked by the plot twist on the last page, it was impressive. I recommend reading.

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@bloodravenlib @comics @bookstodon Reading on Halloween? That’s a great tradition you created.

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By the way, I’m quite impressed with The StoryGraph new improvements. Some of features aimed to paying users seems to be freely available for everyone. It’s such a great reading social media, you should try it. Ah, and please, feel free to add or follow me there (my username is factolvictor).

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I’ve just finished reading
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean. It’s outstanding in every way, a masterpiece.

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@Crowstone @bookstodon @comics Thano you for your recommendation!

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Batman Night Cries (1987) is such a grim, complex and outstanding graphic novel that, after reading it, I’ve had to read it again. Such an amazing work by Archie Goodwin and Scott Hampton.

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I started reading the first pages of Judith Butler’s “Who’s afraid of Gender”. What a powerful book. What a necessary book.

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April 4. Another day in Commissioner Gordon’s old-new-life in the decrepit and corrupt Gotham City. But that will change, there is a hope, a light at the end of the tunnel. And it has bat wings.

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As an academic in the area of Japanese Studies, I have my criticisms of the book Shogun, by James Clavell. But the release of the TV show made me at least excited again to revisit some books on the History of Japan, starting with the classic Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, by A.L. Sadler. It’s not a perfect book (it’s old and also has its share of inconsistencies), but it’s a classic.
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I was thinking of rereading Barry Hughart’s Bridge of Birds, a lovely book I met in 2013. It is a fascinating narrative that mixes history and fantasy about a China that never was. I was looking for something that would encourage me to read the book again and there is no way not to like a book that starts like this:

“I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.”

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Tomorrow I will be in a board of master's degree on the production of Okinawan identities on social media. It's all very interesting and I'm happy that new generations of researchers are very attentive to all of this. We need more works like this and we need to incentivate Okinawan Studies ASAP. @anthropology

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Such an interesting podcast and an interesting episode:

https://podcasts.apple.com/br/podcast/gone-medieval/id1564113746?i=1000642634721

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And it’s time to resume reading Star Wars - The New Jedi Order: Agent of Chaos I, Hero’s Trial, by James Luceno. Last year I tried to read this book at least three times, but Luceno’s unnecessary verbiage bothers me too much. It is one thing for you to pay attention to the details (and run the risk of being called verbose). Another thing is that you put several alien words and expressions that contribute nothing to the narrative. 1/4
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I promise I’m not being a reader making a grumpy criticism. I’ll prove it to you with a quote. I am an anthropologist, we are used to write in native words and expressions all the time as a way to understand other societies. Another thing is for you to use supposedly native words (obviously invented) to say absolutely nothing. 2/4
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What the heck means “to ride in a quulaar slung from Tarkazza?” Unfortunately the author will not explain at any other time in the book and ends up being just a succession of jokes and particular anecdotes that do not interest anyone. These exotic words do not move the narrative at all. Imagine a book in which this is done to exhaustion. Reading Wookiepedia is more interesting. 3/4
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Unfortunately James Luceno does this in several Star Wars books and, even more unfortunately, he is cheered for it, by the succession of empty words that demonstrate a false encyclopedism. Is that the fault of the author or the readers who buys books like this? 4/4
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@zozo @bookstodon I very much agree with you on this point. Maybe that’s the reason for Luceno’s success, without a doubt. What actually bothers me is the writing style. I remember feeling the same way about Plagueis, not because of the story itself (which is great), but because of the way it is told.

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@zozo @bookstodon I was here thinking about other books to think about this criticism. Then I realized that I’m used to reading Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and History of the Middle-Earth (which can be seen as a pain in the 😝😜🥳). The Silmarillion is, by the way, one of my favorite books and notably written in a very difficult way. But it seems to me that, with regard to the style, there is a clear function of emulating a text of biblical content.

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@zozo @bookstodon Again on The Silmarillion, all those new words and that huge Glossary are used with a precise and accurate intent. “Minas” from Minas Morgul really means something. That guy even invented a whole elvish grammar because that was planned, premeditated. But I’m still looking for what means a quulaar slung from Tarkazza 😛.

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I finished 2023 reading Count Zero, the second book of The Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson @GreatDismal . I’ve never read it before. I really like Neuromancer and I really like the images that Gibson evokes in his books, it’s mind-blowing. It was a good way to close 2023 and 2024 already starts with Monalisa Overdrive in my hands.

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Animated GIF saying “Meet Me in Cyberspace”

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I know it’s late at dawn, but being able to watch a few episodes of Star Trek Deep Space Nine turned out to be fundamental to restore some sense of normality before the holidays.
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine’s Quark saying “Would you stop saying that?”.

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It is a text that evidently left out a lot, but it is a valid entry point. Via @Flipboard

https://flip.it/j81R2h

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Unfortunately we are surrounded by people who do not have a shred of critical sense and who do not know how to read. Great article by Charles Stross.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

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I’m reading Star Wars Ahsoka (trying to finish my books TBR this month) and I must say I really like her. It’s an interesting character and a nice addition to SW stellar crew. But I think it’s so upsetting all this discourse of “not being a Jedi” just because she doesn’t belong to the Jedi Temple Studio 54. So, to be a Jedi you must be a member of a country club and that’s it? @bookstodon

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That’s so uncannon and go so against the very core of Star Wars. We all have learn that Luke is a Jedi. “Return of the Jedi” means something to anyone? Luke even restored the Jedi Order in EU (what they call Legends now). I know it’s an identity issue for her, but it really is… boring. @bookstodon

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I don't know if I agree with this list (which I don't), but here we go, I'd like to hear your impressions.

"THE 10 BEST STAR TREK SEASONS, RANKED"
https://nerdist.com/article/10-best-star-trek-seasons-ranked/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user%2FOfficialNerdist

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@simonzerafa @allstartrek Agreed, agreed!

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@allstartrek @MirrorAyako Have you already chosen your favorite seasons? I think it's quite problematic because those seasons have so many episodes and there is always a bad apple...

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@lxskllr @allstartrek I totally agree! And we should consider that these “Top 10” lists are always subjective.

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I've just finished teaching a class on Anthropology of Food in Japan. How I like this topic, wow... it's really, really cool, being able to think about culture through the meals we eat, food production and consumption systems. As the anthropological motto says, food is good not only for eating, but also for thinking. @anthropology

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@taichara @anubis2814 Sure! There are some classic anthropological articles on this topic. One of them is “Why do we overeat?”, by Margaret Mead. In this text she talks about the American Thanksgiving and the pattern of overeating (and developing guilt later) at the end of the year as something cultural. I also like “Toward a Psychosociology of contemporary food consumption”, by Roland Barthes. > @anthropology

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@taichara @anubis2814 @anthropology But my favorites are Pierre Bourdieu’s “Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste”and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural analysis. I also recommend Claude Fischer books and articles (mostly in French, but he has some stuff in English as well). >

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@taichara @anubis2814 @anthropology Regarding some Anthropology of Food in Japan, there are several interesting works. I strongly suggest T.J.M Holden’s “The overcooked and underdone: masculinities in Japanese food programming”. I also like Jordan Sand’s “A short history of MSG” and Nancy Stalker’s “Gourmet Samurai: changing food gender norms in Japan TV”. >

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@taichara @anubis2814 @anthropology If I can also recommend an au concours article, definitely is Anne Allison’s “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: the Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus”.

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I’m thinking about buying Star Trek Infinite, but IGN review give it only 5 (mediocre). The videogame itself seems quite interesting and beautiful, but IGN says it has a lot of bugs everywhere. Does anyone here bought Infinite?

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@MindTGap @allstartrek That’s quite disturbing, I didn’t know that. It’s not the first time Paradox does something controversial such as this. Considering TTRPGs, their poor management of Vampire the Masquerade and Werewolf speaks for itself.

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I think my fellow anthropologists already know this, but it’s worth to read this. @anthropology

From: @IainMac9
https://aus.social/@IainMac9/111187338417916955

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Does anyone here already bought Patrick Stewart's memoir? Any thoughts? @quarks @startrek

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This is one of my favorite Star Wars books. I’ve always liked the way Michael Stackpole writes. In this book we can also see how the next generation of Skywalker is equally powerful, but not invincible. It’s worth it. @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ec97630f-402d-470a-982e-9a407d15ca58

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Today was an intense class day about the Ainu's never-ending struggle for recognition as an original people. It is a very sensitive topic and it is impossible not to draw parallels with what is happening here in Brazil in relation to the gigantic setback that is being done to indigenous peoples. @anthropology

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I‘ve just read the book Dark Ages: Nosferatu, the first in a series of novels set in the famous RPG Vampire: The Dark Ages. It was a very interesting journey through Anatolia in the land of the Cappadocians. @bookstodon

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It was a very interesting journey. For fans of Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages, this is a novel that brings some very cool things, such as the crusade of Latins and Franks who invade Constantinople in the 13th century and end up putting several wheels of fate in motion (This is Medieval History, not spoilers). @bookstodon

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