Otaku
Subtitle: Japan's database animals
By: Hiroki Azuma ; translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780816653515; 9780816653522
Subjects: Subculture -- Japan; Popular culture -- Japan; Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Work titles: Dōbutsukasuru posutomodan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is otaku culture?; title: Otaku's pseudo-Japan; title: Otaku and postmodernity; title: Narrative consumption; title: Grand nonnarrative; title: Moe (desired) elements; title: Database consumption; title: Simulacra and the database; title: Snobbery and the fictional age; title: Dissociated human; title: Age of the animal; title: Hyperflatness and hypervisuality; title: Multiple personality.