http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2008/07/07/if-the-juggernaut-ran-into-thors-hammer/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2008/07/07/if-the-juggernaut-ran-into-thors-hammer/comment-page-1/#comment-5502 Bob Rehak Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:41:22 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=607#comment-5502 Bravo, Tim. Though I haven't read Wolk's book yet, I think you're right on the money regarding the (largely unnecessary) battles that keep getting fought at the boundaries of disciplines like comic-book, animation, and videogame studies. The fact that collecting is often central to these modes of scholarship suggests that collecting itself -- and toy culture more generally -- is in need of its own investigation and (one hopes not too much) "legitimization." Bravo, Tim. Though I haven’t read Wolk’s book yet, I think you’re right on the money regarding the (largely unnecessary) battles that keep getting fought at the boundaries of disciplines like comic-book, animation, and videogame studies. The fact that collecting is often central to these modes of scholarship suggests that collecting itself — and toy culture more generally — is in need of its own investigation and (one hopes not too much) “legitimization.”

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