In the fandom, attempts to explainMade in Abyss‘s often confusing and disorienting world and plot–particularly the Abyss itself–are legion, and multiple interpretations persist, particularly since the series remains as yet unfinished. However, one of the more interesting and troubling features ofMa...
Because what is most interesting aboutSugarcoatis how it (maybe intentionally) functions as a critique of itself. Nostalgia is primarily a result of how our minds remember all the good times and forget the bad ones, and that is also what is happening on this album in all facets from the s...
The body-based essentialisms and biological determinism implied by such feminist frameworks have not come without critique. Is identification with the world, however emblematic of female experience, really premised on binary body basics? Is the capacity for empathy supposedly “natural” to women n...
8 THE "READY-MADE-WRITER" IN A SELECTION OF CONTEMPORARY … 205 Breaking dikes, exploring abysses, opening up to the realm of possibil- ities: the strength and desire to write resides in the depths of the body, ready to be unleashed. Whatever the end product, the most important thing ...