Tokyo Cyberpunk Posthumanism in Japanese

Engaging some of the most ground-breaking and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about electronically mediated forms of social interaction, as well as specific Japanese socioeconomic issues, all in the context of globalization and advanced capitalism. Penetrating and nuanced, this book makes a major contribution to the debate about what it means to be human in a posthuman world.

Steven T. Brown is the Director of Japanese Studies and Professor of Japanese Film & Popular Culture at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh, the editor of Cinema Anime, and the co-editor of Performing Japanese Women, a special issue of the feminist journal Women & Performance.

Introduction: Posthumanism after AKIRA * Part I: Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence * Part II: Desiring Machines: Biomechanoid Eros and Other Techno-Fetishes in Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Its Precursors * Part III: Consensual Hallucinations and the Phantoms of Electronic Presence in Kairo and Avalon * Conclusion: Software in a Body: Critical Posthumanism and Serial Experiments Lain

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Tokyo Cyberpunk Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

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