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Limits of the human / Frenchy Lunning, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mechademia ; 3.
- Mechademia ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animated films--Japan--History and criticism.
- Animated films.
- Graphic arts--Japan.
- Graphic arts.
- Human beings--Variation.
- Human beings.
- Popular culture--Japanese influences.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Univ of Minnesota Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 prot
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface: The Limits of the Human; Introduction: The Limits of ""The Limits of the Human""; Contours: Around the Human; Companions: With the Human; Compossibles: Of the Human; Review and Commentary; Contributors; Call for Papers
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-6968-6
- OCLC:
- 320843109
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