Mechademia 3 Limits of the Human 1st Edition by Frenchy Lunning ISBN 978-0816654826 0816654824
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ISBN 10: 0816654824
ISBN 13: 978-0816654826
Author: Frenchy Lunning
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.
Limits of the Human—the third volume in the Mechademia series—maps the terrain of posthumanity using manga and anime as guides and signposts to understand how to think about humanity’s new potentialities and limits. Through a wide range of texts—the folklore-inspired monsters that populate Mizuki Shigeru’s manga; Japan’s Gothic Lolita subculture; Tezuka Osamu’s original cyborg hero, Atom, and his manga version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (along with Ôtomo Katsuhiro’s 2001 anime film adaptation); the robot anime, Gundam; and the notion of the uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, among others—the essays in this volume reject simple human/nonhuman dichotomies and instead encourage a provocative rethinking of the definitions of humanity along entirely unexpected frontiers.
Contributors: William L. Benzon, Lawrence Bird, Christopher Bolton, Steven T. Brown, Joshua Paul Dale, Michael Dylan Foster, Crispin Freeman, Marc Hairston, Paul Jackson, Thomas LaMarre, Antonia Levi, Margherita Long, Laura Miller, Hajime Nakatani, Susan Napier, Natsume Fusanosuke, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Ôtsuka Eiji, Adèle-Elise Prévost and MUSEbasement; Teri Silvio, Takayuki Tatsumi, Mark C. Taylor, Theresa Winge, Cary Wolfe, Wendy Siuyi Wong, and Yomota Inuhiko.
Table of contents:
Contours – Around the Human
Refiguring the Human
The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru
Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard
Undressing and Dressing Loli: A Search for the Identity of the Japanese Lolita
Mangomatopia
Companions – With the Human
Speciesism, Part I: Translating Races into Animals in Wartime Animation
Stigmata in Tezuka Osamu’s Works
Disarming Atom: Tezuka Osamu’s Manga at War and Peace
States of Emergency: Urban Space and the Robotic Body in the Metropolis Tales
Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human
Manga: The Signal of Noise
Compossibles – Of the Human
Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art
Pop Culture Icons: Religious Inflections of the Character Toy in Taiwan
Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Postscript: On “The Living”
Review and Commentary
A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse (Okohama Kaidashi Kikö)
“Always Exoticize!” Cyborg Identities and the Challenge of the Nonhuman in Full Metal Apache
Lost in Transition: Train Men and Dolls in Millennial Japan
Postmodern Is Old: Habomürai Champloo
Howl’s Moving Castle
Playing Outside the Box with Mind Game
Giant Robots and Superheroes: Manifestations of Divine Power, East and West
An Interview with Crispin Freeman
From Transnationalization to Globalization: The Experience of Hong Kong
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