Tokyo cyberpunk
Subtitle: posthumanism in Japanese visual culture
By: Steven T. Brown.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230103603; 9780230103597
Subjects: Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism; Science fiction films -- Japan -- History and criticism; Cyberpunk culture -- Japan; Literature and technology -- Japan; Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Posthumanism after Akira. Reading rhizomatically; title: Machinic desires, desiring machines, and consensual hallucinations; title: Machinic desires : Hans Bellmer's dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence. An overview of innocence; title: "Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble"; title: From puppets to automata; title: The uncanny mansion; title: The dolls of Hans Bellmer; title: Bellmer/Oshii; title: On the innocence of dolls, angels, and becoming-animal; title: Desiring machines: biomechanoid eros and other. Techno-fetishes in tetsuo: the iron man and its precursors. The birth of sexy robots; title: After Metropolis, before tetsuo: Un chien andalou; title: Giger's biomechanoids, erotomechanics, and metal fetishists; title: The "regular-size" monsters of Matango; title: Mutating from the inside out: The fly; title: "Long live the new flesh": videodrome; title: The tentacle motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo; title: Envisioning the machine-city after Blade runner; title: Confrontations with the salaryman model: resisting hegemonic masculinity and state-sponsored capitalism; title: Coda: co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo ii: body hammer; title: Consensual hallucinations and the phantoms of electronic presence in Kairo and Avalon. Letting in ghosts, shutting out the sun; title: Into the mise en abyme: spectral flows and the forbidden room; title: The human stain: suicide in the shadow of Hiroshima; title: Avalon and "borderline cinema"; title: The society of the spectacle; title: The surrealism of (virtually) everyday life; title: "Welcome to class real"; title: Conclusion. Software in a body: critical posthumanism and Serial experiments Lain. a shojo named lain; title: Email from the dead; title: Doppelgangers in cyberspace; title: Desiring disembodiment; title: The question of resistance.