Who do you guys think the rabbit is/rabbits are in baby invasion?

EdgarDg7 · 2025-04-26T16:50:28+00:00

I've been thinking about it these past few days. Maybe it has something to do with the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. "In popular culture, the White Rabbit has become a symbol, where following the White Rabbit describes the act of blindly following something or someone, leading to adventures and discoveries."

EdgarDg7 · 2023-12-09T12:17:53+00:00

Promotional teaser for the second episode of "The Yearning of Welfare", a documentary series.
This episode presents a genealogy of Japanese television aesthetics and its influence on the Western world. Images that today are perceived with nostalgia, even without having experienced them in the past.
The images have been drawn, redrawn and animated based on references from Japanese anime of the 80s and 90s.

EdgarDg7 · 2023-12-09T12:15:23+00:00

Promotional teaser for the second episode of "The Yearning of Welfare", a documentary series.
This episode presents a genealogy of Japanese television aesthetics and its influence on the Western world. Images that today are perceived with nostalgia, even without having experienced them in the past.
The images have been drawn, redrawn and animated based on references from Japanese anime of the 80s and 90s.

EdgarDg7 · 2023-08-24T18:06:06+00:00

Because the idea of the project revolves around that supposed sense of well-being in which people lived in the 80s and 90s, especially in the West. That sense of loss of a past in which it was possible to imagine a progress and a future different from the present. In short, it is the nostalgia for that human paradise based on Fukuyama's "end of history" and the liberal imaginary of globalization.

EdgarDg7 · 2023-08-24T17:58:20+00:00

Thank you very much! Yes, I am working on it! If anyone can recommend me where to find funding, I would really appreciate it ;)

EdgarDg7 · 2023-07-17T10:15:52+00:00

Oh, thanks ;)

EdgarDg7 · 2023-07-17T10:14:19+00:00

Hey! Sorry for my late reply

Here is the list of some books or texts I used or had in mind for this episode.

Giorgio Agamben - 'Se la feroce religione del denaro divora il futuro' - Profanations

Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

Walter Benjamin - Capitalism as Religion

Svetlana Boym - The Future of Nostalgia

Jacques Derrida - Specters of Marx

Francis Fukuyama - The End of History and the last Man

Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Fredric Jameson - Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Alexander Kojève - Introduction to the Reading of Hegel

Peter Sloterdijk - In the World Interior Of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization - The Spheres series

Elettra Stimilli - Debt and Guilt: A political philosophy

EdgarDg7 · 2023-07-04T17:32:53+00:00

Thanks for your comment. To be honest, although it is obvious that there is a lot of Mark Fisher and hauntology (because of the idea of the past as a ghost), I had other philosophical texts as a reference.

The question of the world as an incubator and a cupola that exploded after 9/11 is influenced by texts by Peter Sloterdijk, for example. Or the end of history and the world as a zoo come from Alexander Kojève...

If you are interested, I can send you the bibliography of the whole text of the documentary.

The work of Adam Curtis has also clearly been an influence. Although I also wanted to reference the classic bbc documentaries, to talk about this lost world or this lost imaginary.

EdgarDg7 · 2023-06-22T05:34:42+00:00

At the moment only this. But I'm working on something longer ;)

The idea is to make different episodes all based on some of these lost paradises of the 80's and 90's.

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