Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human (Mechademia) (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: wartime animation, postwar manga, karakuri ningyo, New York, Hans Bellmer, Ambassador Atom (more...)

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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.

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Product Details Paperback: 296 pages Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; illustrated edition edition (November 5, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0816654824 ISBN-13: 978-0816654826 Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #581,276 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; illustrated edition edition (November 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816654824
• ISBN-13: 978-0816654826
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #581,276 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Getting better and better!!!, December 12, 2008

By	Valeria F. Silva "Valéria Fernandes" (Brasilia, DF, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Read Mechademia is a great experience. I have the three issues published till now and must say that this last number is better than the previous one and shows how anime/manga/and Japanese pop culture studies are improving. Really good and a must for all the researchers in this field and anime and manga fans in general.