In connection with my desire to fully keep up with the J-pop industry, I’m planning to do a weekly round-up of any new releases that have caught my ear. Some of these may have been covered on…

Cyberpunk crystalized in the 80s, with the dystopian visions of Neuromancer, Blade Runner, and more. Fredeeric Jameson himself called cyberpunk the “supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself.” If you’re familiar with the term “late capitalism” then you probably invoke it as the cause or explanation for a host of […]