Mechademia 3 : 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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lunning, Frenchy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Japonés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular culture > Japanese influences.
Popular culture.
Graphic arts.
Animated films.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Human beings > Variation.
Animated films > Japan > History and criticism.
Graphic arts > Japan.
Popular culture > Japan.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816669684

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