{"id":735,"date":"2010-05-25T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T05:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2010-05-25T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T05:28:37","slug":"earthy-and-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Earthy and Dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just arrived in Beijing at Renmin University where I will give\u00a0a talk about animation fans and how they use alter egos and virtual siblings,\u00a0or even\u00a0entire imagined clans and families. I want to find out how and why they fantasize about alternative\u00a0families and how they deal with pressures of the\u00a0bio-family.<\/p>\n

But what are\u00a0the first impressions of Beijing coming from Hong Kong?\u00a0Beijing is earthy and dirty.\u00a0Hong Kong seems to have lost its sweat glands and body odors. Maybe it is just\u00a0a cliche that\u00a0in Beijing\u00a0one smells wafts\u00a0of urine\u00a0everywhere (comparable to those in Paris and\u00a0Brussels.) But certainly\u00a0it is true and brings relief to see that people look more relaxed and “healthy”, grubby and chubby, moist and tanned.<\/p>\n

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Then I also brought with me my pale Hermina, who is is named after the sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.\u00a0 She came with an electric guitar and I also got her a\u00a0skate board. The doll brand is named Pullip and\u00a0is\u00a0made in South Korea as a competitor to the much bigger Japanese companyVolks or SD (Superdollfie) The CEO of Volks\u00a0 (A Japanese man taking on German features) launched the fad of ball-jointed dolls as virtual siblings about a decade ago.\u00a0When assembling and buying a “daughter” from Volks, one can go pick her up in Kyoto and she\u00a0will be\u00a0handed over to you in a Christian-like ritual of baptism.\u00a0Yes, these\u00a0strange fashions are\u00a0the\u00a0spiritual and chaste version of the sex doll. Actually, one can see that many of those daughters live\u00a0 out the fetish\u00a0dreams of their owners but\u00a0the adult\u00a0here is supposed to shut up and play.<\/p>\n

So here she she is …\u00a0my\u00a0mean little Hermina. Yes, she does have an esoteric\u00a0personality and those piercing blue eyes–that would a swift Korean business ideal.<\/p>\n

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I just arrived in Beijing at Renmin University where I will give\u00a0a talk about animation fans and how they use alter egos and virtual siblings,\u00a0or even\u00a0entire imagined clans and families. I want to find out how and why they fantasize about alternative\u00a0families and how they deal with pressures of the\u00a0bio-family. But what are\u00a0the first impressions… Continue reading Earthy and Dirty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[17,21,25,27],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-proceedings","category-superdolfie-dolls","tag-beijing","tag-cosplay","tag-hong-kong","tag-japan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}