“The ambiguous future of Japan’s most prestigious group of animators won’t get clearer anytime soon.”
Hayao Miyazaki
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Beyond the Machine
“I want to frame the technology more like an instrument, and get away from GenAI as an intelligence, an ideology, a tool, a crutch, or a weapon.”
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Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land
“What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?”
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Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
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What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
On the wonder and strangeness of occupying a perpetually in-between space.