Understanding Disaster, Part 3: Evangelion and the World Apocalypse

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Stray Notes:

Sorry if my Lacanian summary is unclear. I am not a psychology major, so I had to read and re-read a bit of Lacan to get a good idea of what is being presented. I hope I hit the major things.
I am hugely against different aspect ratios. Since I'm not talking about the cinematography of Evangelion, I decided to manually align 4:3 footage into a 16:9 frame. I hope this doesn't bother anyone.
Note, I am not a huge EVA fan, so I am more than certain many of you (probably most of you) are aware of the diagetic narrative particularities associated with the material.

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Text

Azuma, Hiroki. "Japan's Database Animals." Minnesota Press 2009, translated by Jonathan Abel and Shion Kono.
Bevacqua, Michael Lujan. "Lacan Avec Evangelion." Accessed July 28 2016, http://bit.ly/2aQpI46.
Duan, Charles. "Constructing the Self: Views of Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo." http://bit.ly/2avEGk1.
"Empty Gestures and Performatives." Lacan. July 20 2016, http://bit.ly/2aXbsHB.
Howard, Christopher. "The ethics of Sekai-kei: Reading Hiroki Azuma with Slavoj Zizek." Science Fiction Film and Television 7:3 (2014), 365-386.
"Jacques Lacan." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed June 20, 2016, http://stanford.io/2aHPb23.
"Jacques Lacan." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed June 21, 2016, http://bit.ly/2aXaNpl.
Lamarre, Thomas, Shion Kono, and Miyadai Shinji. "Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992." Mechademia 6 (2011), 231-258.
Malone, Paul, Madeline Ashby, and Thomas Lamarre. "Three Faces of Eva." Mechademia 5 (2010), 345-346.
Naylor, Alex, and Elyce Rae Helford. "Introduction: Science fiction anime: national, nationless, transnational, post/colonial." Science Fiction Film and Television 7:3 (2014), 309-314.
Napier, Susan. "When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' and 'Serial Experiments Lain'." Science Fiction Studies 29:3 (2002), 418-435.
Ortega, Mariana. "My Father, He Killed Me; My Mother, She Ate Me: Self, Desire, Engendering, and the Mother in Neon Genesis Evangelion." Mechademia 2: 10 (2007), 216-232.
Tamaki, Saito. "Beautiful Fighting Spirit." Minnesota Press 2006, translated J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson.
Tamaki, Saito. "Social Withdrawal - Adolescence without End." Minnesota Press 2013, translated by Jeffrey Angles.
Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypticism in Postwar Japanese Fiction." 2011, Thesis.
Tanaka, Motoko. "Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction." Palgrave MacMillan 2014.
Thomas, Stefanie. "Sekai-kei as Existentialist Narrative: Positioning Xenosaga within the Genre Framework." 2014, Thesis.
Thomas, Stefanie. "You Cannot See Yourself Unless There Are Others: Sekaikei as Exhortation of Societal Participation." The Phoenix Papers 2:2, 26-59.

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Media

NGE (including End of Evangelion), Anime Movie and TV Show
Saikano, Anime
Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, OVA
Hoshi no Koe, Anime Movie
Akira, Anime Movie
Zero Hour, Documentary
A, Documentary
Kobe Earthquake ITN Footage
Kobe Earthquake Footage
How Japanese Viewed Immigration in the 90s
Case Study: Japan - The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade

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Audio

Under Suspicion, Lee Rosevere
Hajimari e no Touhi (Escape to the beginning)
Borderline Case
Munashiki Nagare (The flow of emptiness)
Phantom from Space, by Kevin MacLeod
Irregular, by Kevin MacLeod
Komm, susser Tod Amaki shi yo, kitare