Tokyo Cyberpunk : Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Stephen Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day. Engaging Some Of The Most Canonical And Thought-provoking Anime, Manga, And Science Fiction Films, Tokyo Cyberpunk Offers Insightful Analysis Of Japanese Visual Culture. Steven T. Brown Draws New Conclusions About The Cultural Flow Of Art, As Well As Important Technological Issues Of The Day. Posthumanism After Akira. Reading Rhizomatically -- Machinic Desires, Desiring Machines, And Consensual Hallucinations -- Machinic Desires : Hans Bellmer's Dolls And The Technological Uncanny In Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence. An Overview Of Innocence -- Once Their Strings Are Cut, They Easily Crumble -- From Puppets To Automata -- The Uncanny Mansion -- The Dolls Of Hans Bellmer -- Bellmer/oshii -- On The Innocence Of Dolls, Angels, And Becoming-animal -- Desiring Machines: Biomechanoid Eros And Other. Techno-fetishes In Tetsuo: The Iron Man And Its Precursors -- The Birth Of Sexy Robots -- After Metropolis, Before Tetsuo: Un Chien Andalou -- Giger's Biomechanoids, Erotomechanics, And Metal Fetishists -- The Regular-size Monsters Of Matango -- Mutating From The Inside Out: The Fly -- Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome -- The Tentacle Motif From Hokusai To Tetsuo -- Envisioning The Machine-city After Blade Runner -- Confrontations With The Salaryman Model: Resisting Hegemonic Masculinity And State-sponsored Capitalism -- Coda: Co-opting Tetsuo In Tetsuo Ii: Body Hammer -- Consensual Hallucinations And The Phantoms Of Electronic Presence In Kairo And Avalon. Letting In Ghosts, Shutting Out The Sun -- Into The Mise En Abyme: Spectral Flows And The Forbidden Room -- The Human Stain: Suicide In The Shadow Of Hiroshima -- Avalon And Borderline Cinema -- The Society Of The Spectacle -- The Surrealism Of (virtually) Everyday Life -- Welcome To Class Real -- Conclusion. Software In A Body: Critical Posthumanism And Serial Experiments Lain. A Shōjo Named Lain -- E-mail From The Dead -- Doppelgängers In Cyberspace -- Desiring Disembodiment -- The Question Of Resistance. Steven T. Brown. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [229]-246) And Index. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: Posthumanism after AKIRA 12 Reading Rhizomatically 14 Machinic Desires, Desiring Machines, and Consensual Hallucinations 21 Part I: Machinic Desires: Hans Bellmer’s Dolls and the Technological Uncanny in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 24 An Overview of Innocence 25 “Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble” 34 From Puppets to Automata 40 The Uncanny Mansion 43 The Dolls of Hans Bellmer 47 Bellmer/Oshii 55 On the Innocence of Dolls, Angels, and Becoming-Animal 61 Part II: Desiring Machines: Biomechanoid Eros and Other Techno-Fetishes in Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Its Precursors 66 The Birth of Sexy Robots 67 After Metropolis, Before Tetsuo: Un chien andalou 71 Giger’s Biomechanoids, Erotomechanics, and Metal Fetishists 75 The “Regular-Size” Monsters of Matango 82 Mutating from the Inside Out: The Fly 83 “Long Live the New Flesh”: Videodrome 90 The Tentacle Motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo 104 Envisioning the Machine-City after Blade Runner 110 Confrontations with the Salaryman Model: Resisting Hegemonic Masculinity and State-Sponsored Capitalism 116 Coda: Co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo II: Body Hammer 120 Part III: Consensual Hallucinations and the Phantoms of Electronic Presence in Kairo and Avalon 122 Letting In Ghosts, Shutting Out the Sun 124 Into the Mise en Abyme: Spectral Flows and the Forbidden Room 131 The Human Stain: Suicide in the Shadow of Hiroshima 138 Avalon and “Borderline Cinema” 143 The Society of the Spectacle 148 The Surrealism of (Virtually) Everyday Life 151 “Welcome to Class Real” 154 Conclusion: Software in a Body: Critical Posthumanism and Serial Experiments Lain 168 A Shōjo Named Lain 172 E-mail from the Dead 173 Doppelgängers in Cyberspace 178 Desiring Disembodiment 187 The Question of Resistance 192 Notes 198 Bibliography 240 Index 258 Posthumanism after Akira. Reading rhizomatically Machinic desires, desiring machines, and consensual hallucinations Machinic desires : Hans Bellmer's dolls and the technological uncanny in Ghost in the shell 2: innocence. An overview of innocence "Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble" From puppets to automata The uncanny mansion The dolls of Hans Bellmer Bellmer/Oshii On the innocence of dolls, angels, and becoming-animal Desiring machines: biomechanoid eros and other. Techno-fetishes in tetsuo: the iron man and its precursors. The birth of sexy robots After Metropolis, before tetsuo: Un chien andalou Giger's biomechanoids, erotomechanics, and metal fetishists The "regular-size" monsters of Matango Mutating from the inside out: The fly "Long live the new flesh": videodrome The tentacle motif from Hokusai to Tetsuo Envisioning the machine-city after Blade runner Confrontations with the salaryman model: resisting hegemonic masculinity and state-sponsored capitalism Coda: co-opting Tetsuo in Tetsuo ii: body hammer Consensual hallucinations and the phantoms of electronic presence in Kairo and Avalon. Letting in ghosts, shutting out the sun Into the mise en abyme: spectral flows and the forbidden room The human stain: suicide in the shadow of Hiroshima Avalon and "borderline cinema" The society of the spectacle The surrealism of (virtually) everyday life "Welcome to class real" Conclusion. Software in a body: critical posthumanism and Serial experiments Lain. a shojo named lain Email from the dead Doppelgangers in cyberspace Desiring disembodiment The question of resistance.