Mechademia 3 : Limits of the Human.
Title:
Mechademia 3 : Limits of the Human.
Author:
Lunning, Frenchy.
ISBN:
9780816669684
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Series:
Mechademia, v. 3 ; v.v. 3
Mechademia, v. 3
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface: The Limits of the Human -- Introduction: The Limits of "The Limits of the Human" -- Contours: Around the Human -- Refiguring the Human -- The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru -- Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard -- Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita -- Manga: Komatopia -- Companions: With the Human -- Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation -- Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu's Works -- Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu's Manga at War and Peace -- States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales -- Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human -- Manga: The Signal of Noise -- Compossibles: Of the Human -- Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art -- Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan -- Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence -- Postscript: On "The Living" -- Review and Commentary -- A Healing Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama Kaidashi kiko -- Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan -- Howl's Moving Castle -- Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game -- From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong -- "Always Exoticize!" Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache -- Postmodern Is Old Hat: Samurai Champloo -- Torendo -- Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West An Interview with Crispin Freeman -- Contributors -- Call for Papers.
Abstract:
Dramatic advances in genetics, cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology have given rise to both hopes and fears about how technology might transform humanity. As the possibility of a posthuman future becomes increasingly likely, debates about how to interpret or shape this future abound. In Japan, anime and manga artists have for decades been imagining the contours of posthumanity, creating dazzling and sometimes disturbing works of art that envision a variety of human/nonhuman hybrids: biological/mechanical, human/animal, and human/monster. Anime and manga offer a constellation of posthuman prototypes whose hybrid natures require a shift in our perception of what it means to be human. Limits of the Human-the third volume in the Mechademia series-maps the terrain of posthumanity using manga and anime as guides and signposts to understand how to think about humanity's new potentialities and limits. Through a wide range of texts-the folklore-inspired monsters that populate Mizuki Shigeru's manga; Japan's Gothic Lolita subculture; Tezuka Osamu's original cyborg hero, Atom, and his manga version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (along with Ôtomo Katsuhiro's 2001 anime film adaptation); the robot anime, Gundam; and the notion of the uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, among others-the essays in this volume reject simple human/nonhuman dichotomies and instead encourage a provocative rethinking of the definitions of humanity along entirely unexpected frontiers. Contributors: William L. Benzon, Lawrence Bird, Christopher Bolton, Steven T. Brown, Joshua Paul Dale, Michael Dylan Foster, Crispin Freeman, Marc Hairston, Paul Jackson, Thomas LaMarre, Antonia Levi, Margherita Long, Laura Miller, Hajime Nakatani, Susan Napier, Natsume Fusanosuke, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Ôtsuka Eiji, Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement; Teri Silvio, Takayuki Tatsumi, Mark C. Taylor,
Theresa Winge, Cary Wolfe, Wendy Siuyi Wong, and Yomota Inuhiko.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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