Limits of the human /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lunning, Frenchy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Colección:Mechademia ; 3.
Temas:
Popular culture > Japan.
Graphic arts > Japan.
Popular culture > Japanese influences.
Animated films > Japan > History and criticism.
Human beings > Variation.
Arts graphiques > Japon.
Êtres humains > Variation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Animated films
Graphic arts
Popular culture
Popular culture > Japanese influences
Japan
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : The limits of the human / Frenchy Lunning
  • Introduction : The limits of "The limits of the human" / Christopher Bolton
  • Contours: around the human : Refiguring the human / Mark C. Taylor
  • The otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru / Michael Dylan Foster
  • Extreme makeover for a Heian-era wizard / Laura Miller
  • Undressing and dressing Loli: a search for the identity of the Japanese Lolita / Theresa Winge
  • Manga: Komatopia / Natusume Fusanosuke
  • Companions: with the human : Speciesism, part I: Translating races into animals in wartime animation / Thomas LaMarre
  • Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu's works / Yomota Inuhiko
  • Disarming atom: Tezuka Osamu's manga at war and peace / Otsuka Eiji
  • States of emergency: urban space and the robotic body in the Metropolis tales / Lawrence Bird
  • Emotional infectivity: cyborg affect and the limits of the human / Sharalyn Orbaugh
  • Manga: the signal of noise / written and adapted by Adèle-Elise Prévost, illus. by Musebasement
  • Compossibles: of the human : Gundam and the future of Japanoid art / Takayuki Tatsumi, translated, with a response by Christopher Bolton
  • Pop culture icons: religious inflections of the character toy in Taiwan / Teri Silvio
  • Machinic desires: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence / Steven T. Brown
  • Postscript: On "the living" / Cary Wolfe
  • Review and commentary : A healing gentle apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikō / Marc Hairston ; Lost in transition: train men and dolls in millennial Japan / Susan Napier ; Howl's moving castle / Antonia Levi ; Playing outside the box with Mind game / Paul Jackson ; From transnationalization to globalization: the experience of Hong Kong / Wendy Siuyi Wong ; "Always exoticize!" Cyborg identities and the challenge of the nonhuman in Full metal Apache / Joshua Paul Dale
  • Postmodern in old hat: Samūrai Champloo / William L. Benzon
  • Torendo : Giant robots and superheroes: manifestations of divine power, East meets West: An interview with Crispin Freeman / Frenchy Lunning.

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