MW Larson

Writer, editor, translator. Author of "When the Waves Came" out now from Chin Music Press. Visiting Assistant Prof at Keio University.

[MW Larson @mwlarson1]

Putting together a symposium this Sunday, 8/27, in Tokyo about Politics, SF, and Cold War Culture in Japan.

Looking forward to welcoming anyone who can join us!

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

RIP

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.

https://t.co/07BtpKswBu

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Style becomes a lot more interesting when you stop thinking of clothes as a way to look younger, hotter, or richer. Or as a way to gain status and advance your career.

Let me show you. 🧵

[高梨治｜出版 @nashishi036]

今回の『S-Fファンジン』のもう一つの目玉が巽孝之先生のアメリカSF学会生涯功労賞受賞という事件の報。中村麻美、ラーソン・マイケル両氏によるアメリカでの最新レポートも収録されています！雑誌全体の難波弘之先生による巻頭言の下段でも寿がれています。最後の一文！難波先生にしか書けない（笑）

[Sami ON Tap @SamiOnTap]

This could be the best video you’ll ever watch.

Watching the Seahawks dominate while Bill Simmons talks about how the Seahawks fans are nervous 🤣

[MW Larson @mwlarson1]

@jessesingal I think you mean Seattle “*the* reigning Super Bowl-championship” American city.

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

as a moderate centrist I believe in a grand compromise wherein the state security forces doing ethnic cleansing agree to reforms whereby they perpetrate 50% fewer broad daylight murders of whomever angers or distresses them and I'm willing to fund those forces lavishly to do it

[RadiantFilm @RadiantFilm]

Hayao Miyazaki on Seven Samurai (1954) and his contrasting historical vision of Japan in Princess Mononoke (1997):

"I love director Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Even though I love it, the Japan that he depicts in that film is not the real Japan. My perception of Japanese history is different. That is why I felt I needed to make my own period drama with historical Japan as the setting, and why I worked hard at it. The samurai who appear in Seven Samurai are modeled on the Russian intelligentsia and also on the many laborers who were in dire straits after Japan lost the Pacific War. In historical Japan there were no such samurai and peasants. In fact, peasants were samurai in many cases. They all carried weapons. To Japanese who had lost the war, Seven Samurai had an intense reality. But now, as the twentieth century is about to draw to a close, I thought it would be a mistake to use the same model in making a film set in historical Japan. Director Akira Kurosawa’s film is so powerful it cast a spell that everyone has fallen under, giving us a strong impression that it is true to Japanese history. It took me a long time to break that spell."

— "Forty-four Questions on Princess Mononoke for Director Hayao Miyazaki from International Journalists at the Berlin International Film Festival", published in Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki, (English edition, 2014; translated by Beth Cary and Frederik L. Schodt)

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

A 1920 film about the life of a young girl living in Tokyo's Fukagawa area in 1920: she has to sell natto in the morning before going to school, walks by canals created in the Edo Period, and has to do housework after school.
https://t.co/slsrFuRhzj

[hellon dude @allahliker]

while mourning the first amendment we need to give some credit to Joe Biden and the Democrat party for helping crack down on student protestors and pro gaza speech in order to cover for what most of them now have to admit is indeed a genocide. joe walked so trump could run

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Edward Said on Frantz Fanon

[Paul Mozur 孟建國 @paulmozur]

The US' largest private prison operator, Geo Group, runs one of its largest immigrant surveillance programs. Now, ICE is using the privately run system to track and deport growing numbers of people. 200k are currently in the system. Geo expects it to grow. https://t.co/FGQuxD8rjj

[Liz Franczak @liz_franczak]

that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art?

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

love him so much (F. Jameson)

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Adorno on Hitler and Fascism

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The least surprising thing ever is watching Democrats defend the CIA front known as USAID, deceitfully depicting it as just some nice organization that wants to help:

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

This is a classic.

[Nate Holdren @n_hold]

Perry Anderson, "Problems of Socialist Strategy"

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

so if I've got this right some people are unhappy with Adam Tooze's Latourian translation of the Odyssey

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

It's true that theory in the humanities has been trapped playing out the same standard moves for decades. But in what intellectual, artistic, or creative field is that not the case?